Way to view my 8710p's documents from my D430?

Suggestions?

I've considered buying an HP Media Vault for $200 from CompUSA (while in their death-throes I can get it cheaper) and doing Acronis backups to it, then setting that server up as an FTP. But I'm thinking that I can probably do it just using my 8710p, but I'm not sure.

I'm almost positive that I'd set up one of my external hard drives to a dedicated FTP drive to control exactly what is being let out on the net.

But what about security? Some of my documents should not ever be accessed by others, period. I'll remap ports, run AES256 + SSL, do anything needed to make it secure, even at the cost of speed.

Suggestions from the geniuses?

And another thing...I do have access to a Purdue VPN network, but I do not know if this is going to help me any. I'd also like this to be Vista compatible, mostly because I do plan to eventually migrate if Vista ever managed to fix itself and suit my needs.

 

You can use an FTP server and manage remotely via web. There is also the option of web based FTP. IPSwitch currently uses SSH and should be plenty secure.

 

I don't know much about the security side, but I'm pretty sure you can configure a laptop for use as a server-type device just as you would any other computer.

My desktop is set up in a similar manner (without any extra security features besides your normal slew of antivirus/firewall stuff - I don't really have any terribly important on it) using apache 2.2.6 to handle http transfers, a program called XLight to handle ftp transfers and the Windows' Remote Desktop feature for all other forms of access.

To prevent access of certain files, you can direct the http/ftp programs to folders inside folders that you don't want accessed, I don't think there's any way to circumvent such a setup without a bit of hacking.

 

Set up your own ftp server. It this for yourself or everyone to access?

 

Personal access only. Worried about security, need to view stuff from 'out there', which probably means I have to worry about DHCP and DDNS...

 

I run my own FTP server. I make up my password with different characters.
That along with username(I hope beside sysadmin) with make it so proof that nobody can get in.

Make it like after 3 invalid login, it will log out that IP address or you cant try for another 10 mins, etc.

 

I pretty much do the same thing here. Just set a solid username/password and no one's gonna get in without a fair bit of hacking. And use an obscure port like 10234 or something besides whatever the standard is.

Same goes for Windows' Remote Desktop if you end up using that.

 

I've kind of got it working, and a few of the mods have been testing my setup since I cannot test it within the network.

I've partially set up DDNS, and I've forwarded all the ports I've needed to set up FTP and passive FTP. They can log in, but cannot do anything as something mysteriously gets denied and shut down.

I'm using Cerebus FTP as a server, with the other guys using unknown clients. It somewhat works, but not.

I'm starting to think a better way to do this would involve a large USB stick or a PCMCIA microdrive...

 

Check the log and see what errors are there.