This is the last section in this chapter. In this section, we will discover how to install and configure, on an Ubuntu Server, two of the most used file servers—FTP and Samba.
The vsftpd
is an FTP daemon available in Ubuntu. It is easy to install, set up, and maintain. To install vsftpd
, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install vsftpd
The /etc/vsftpd.conf
file contains the main configuration options for the FTP server. It is well commented. Therefore, you can edit it easily. After the config
modification, you should restart the server by using the following command:
sudo restart vsftpd
Connecting to the FTP server is quite easy. You can do so either by using the FTP command in the CLI of the customer machine or a client GUI program such as FileZilla.