#Set up ftp server mac os install#

On the 'server' side of the preferences, you can find the settings that control how active the server can be, in terms of bandwidth and disk space and specify how the server talks to the outside world. Leave the defaults, click Continue, and then you can disable it after everything has been set up. By configuring it, PureFTPd Manager will create a folder for anonymous users and set up the necessary permissions. It's recommended that you do not disable anonymous login at this time, even if you do not intend to use it. If you want to work with user names, you must obviously define each user, with their respective passwords and permissions. In a nutshell, you tell it where the directory that will serve as the FTP server root directory is and whether you want to allow anonymous access or not. At first glance it may seem very technical and confusing, but it really isn't. One by one I followed those links and, with the help of the documentation, I got the server configured, up and running in less than 15 minutes.

#Set up ftp server mac os install#

But I stuck with it, and skipped anything that I did not know and got the installation done.Īfter the install was complete, I launched the program and was greeted by a window with a big list of features in the middle, and hovering over those, I discovered they were in fact links. Now, as a person who has never set up a FTP server before, I must admit I was a bit put off, and many of those things it wanted to configure were a total mystery to me. Pure FTPd Manager is a donation-ware FTP server daemon that gives you the power of the Pure FTPd server and the looks of an Aqua interface in one single package.Īfter downloading the disk image and starting the install process, FTPd started asking me all kinds of things.