If I were needing to provide secure FTP service for more that a few days, I'd definitely spend a little to get a bigger drive for the Linux box, or perhaps switch Linux and Windows on the boxen. (if possible)
Just my $0.02. Feel free to ignore it.
Jwp wrote:
Hehe, little to fast on the draw there sorry about that.
I run a small FTP server for friends and family through my Linux box, and due to Hard Disk space limitations I store the files on a windows machine with a much larger HDD. Now in order to allow each user access I have mounted the shared windows drive (XPSHARE) into each FTP user’s Home Dir.
Is this a bad practice? If so is there another way to provide users access to the network drive, while keeping them in CHROOT jail? I tried mounting the network drive to an external mount point and then mapping this folder to the user home dirs (but obviously that didn’t work, understand I am new to linux).
Thanks for your time,
JP
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