Setting Up a Test FTP Server
A server running FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV processes is a fairly common thing. However, if you do not have a server available for experimentation with Eclipse, you can easily set up these services. However, as of Eclipse 3.0/3.1, these clients do not work when connecting to a local server. You will have to set up a second machine on your local network to run these services. To help you, we will touch on how to quickly set up an FTP server.
Again, a word of caution — these instructions are designed to give us a crude but effective file server. It will neither be very secure nor optimized for performance. If you need a production FTP server, consult other resources on configuring your machine and security best practices.
To start off, decide on an upload area. This directory could be anywhere, but be sure you have read and write permissions to that directory.