How to use betaFTP to share stored music?

[cenzo79]

I have a laptop that has a good amount of MP3 files on it's windows partition, and I want to share them on my local network using puppy.
I prefer FTP to a samba share, since FTP clients have a better interface for transfers.
Could someone walk me through the steps for creating an FTP user that has my MP3 directory(i.e. /mnt/hda1/documents ... yadda yadda) as it's home.
Many thanks in advance

[GuestToo]

if you just want to make files available over your network, you could start httpd (click /root/ghttpd/httpd) ... any files in /root/ghttpd/htdocs/ should be available over your network, and on the internet ... i would make a folder (or create a symlink to a folder) in /root/ghttpd/htdocs/, called maybe mp3s, move or copy or symlink your mp3s to that folder, then they will be available over your network

you can see your mp3 files by typing 127.0.0.1/mp3s/ in Mozilla or Firefox ... other computers on your network can see the files by typing the ip address of your computer in a web browser ... something like 192.168.0.2/mp3s/ ... other computers on the internet can see your files by typing in your internet ip address in their browsers

or you can use ftp ... httpd is probably the easiest way to make files available for downloading

[cenzo79]

Thanks for the help.
(1) did as you stated and placed a link to my mp3 dir in the required file, started http server, and was able to view/download files from a local machines web browser.

I was wondering, however, if it is possible to open my http site from a local machine w/an FTP client .. and if so, how?
(I don't like using web browsers for file transfers, and prefer te double pane look of most FTP clints).

(2) in addition, I set up the beta FTP server in puppy, and enabled "anonymous" logging. I was then able to access the "/root/ftp" dir from a local machine.
Unfortunately, placing a link into this folder (to my mp3 dir) did not work as it did above.

How can I add "shared" folders to the list of folders that an "anon" user can access when running the beta FTP server.

Many thanks

[GuestToo]

if it is possible to open my http site from a local machine w/an FTP client

probably ... i think Puppy's gftp client can use http ... look in gftp's options

placing a link into this folder (to my mp3 dir) did not work

you can use an ftp server if you like ... it shouldn't be much more difficult to set up ... maybe you need to configure the ftp server to allow symlinks?

i haven't used the beta ftp server much, so i don't know much about it

i thought if i posted some infomation on how to use httpd to serve files, it might help others people, even if it was not really what you wanted