setting up ftp and sftp servers

[Calcpage]

On Jun 20, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>  
wrote:

> On 20/06/10 12:43, calcpage at aol.com wrote:
>> I have a couple of really old servers.  Each is a Pentium class PC  
>> with
>> a small hdd, so I only run one service on each.  One is an ftp server
>> where I can login to upload files to share with my students that they
>> can access via anonymous ftp.  The other is a ssh server where I
>> install software such as jdk that they need to do assignments.  They
>> login via sftp, write source code, compile and save their work on  
>> this
>> ssh server.
>>
>> I just fell heir to 2 quad-core Intel Xeon boxes.  So I would like to
>> replace these old servers!  I was looking at Ubuntu's server edition
>> but see that its all command line driven, no GUI.  I was wondering  
>> how
>> complicated it is to add ftp and sftp services to a desktop  
>> edition?  I
>> could then use it as a teacher station to display my work on the PC
>> projector as well.
>>
>> BTW, see my blog, I just blogged all about Ubuntu and this mailing  
>> list!
>>
>> TIA,
>> A. Jorge Garcia
>> http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
>>
>> Teacher&  Professor
>> Applied Mathematics, PhysicsÂ&  Computer Science
>> Baldwin Senior High School&  Nassau Community College
>>
>
> Very nice blog. I wish I had teachers/lecturers like you when I was in
> high school and university.... :-) .
>
> Good luck!
>
> BC
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Thanx for the kind words!

Thanx,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math & CS
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
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