perezf Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Hello everyone, i was wondering how i could turn an external hardrive that i have into a server accessible by everyone on the netbut when i switch the button to off the server shuts off How can i do thisps its for a windows computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Your ISP will likely have something to say about this. ISPs generally don't like people hosting servers on their machines, unless you pay for a commercial service. This is to avoid the certain bandwidth issues that will result from traffic to "residential" networks, and also so they can make a bit more money. :)The most likely option is to run an FTP server that has its root in the hard drive's root. The only FTP daemon I've used in Windows is WarFTP, at www.warftp.org. I'm not sure, though, how you would automatically shut the server off when the hard drive is shut off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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