>I have a client that has switched their network from Novell to NT4. They've also set up the server to host their website. We have been using email to transfer files from the remote locations to the main site because they originally weren't interested in full fledged internet.
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>I'm wondering now though how easy is it to setup FTP (or something else) in NT so that the remote sites can transfer the data to their server and my VFP app can get to the files transferred. It needs to be reasonably secure we don't want a public anonymous ftp site. The only thing I've ever done with ftp is download files or used it to maintain my father's website from here.


When you install IIS you can also install the FTP server. It's really
easy - all you do is tell it the start up FTP path and off you go. The
only thing that I've found sticky at times is proper permissions for
uploads - they don't take immediately after setting and even stopping
the service and restarting sometimes doesn't work <s>... log off and
log on then restart seems to be reliable.

As to transfer, wwIPStuff works well. Other controls are
available if you need to get more fancy. I've just updated
wwIPStuff (internally for Web Connection for now) to support
message events during downloads as well as full native
VFP implementation to make it easier to modify the code.
The FTP stuff's pretty painless to work with...

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