FTP Setup, How?

Want to give friends access to my webserver

[tjhilder]

Hi, dunno if I'm in the right forum but here's my question:

How do I setup FTP for a Windows XP webserver? I've tried searching & asking others but to no answer to my question.

I want to be able to give access to my webserver via ftp so that I can allow my friends to use space on my webserver, is there any links with screenshots on how to do this?

[txbakers]

Rather than use the XP machine as the FTP server, I recommend downloading and installing a software FTP server.

I use BulletProof FTP server which I like very much.

[tjhilder]

so how would this work then for people uploading stuff to my webserver?

would it still be ftp://domain.com?

[raywood]

I agree with txbakers. I've had lots of security troubles with the Microsoft ftp server. Seems like it had more holes than the IIS web server. I don't know how it is nowadays. I don't know if it's been tighted up or not. But If I were you I'd use something else.

[raywood]

BTW, if you decide to stick with Microsoft, their KB and MSDN sites have all the info you need to set it up.