Newbie Setup FTP/SSH

[jonezy187]

So I am relatively new to Linux and have a very basic understanding of terminal. I'm looking to setup a basic FTP/SSH to the machine but I'm having a bit of trouble following guides currently on the net already. All i want to do is access a certain folder away from home with read and write access. Is there app that can setup a server for me at all? Or am I missing the boat here and it is in face quite simple?

[rhodry]

OpenSSH Server & Client is the way to go, particularly using "authorized keys" so you do not need to login all the time. I maintain many clients Linux machines this way.

This may help:

http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=2392

and there are dozens of OpenSSH tutorials on the web.

regards,
rhodry.

[jonezy187]

Thanks for that. I managed to setup SSH but can't seem to figure out how to log in using Putty/FileZilla/WinSCP etc. I've tried using my machine name and username. Is there something I'm missing?

[oobetimer]

Install ProFTP
http://www.proftpd.org/docs/example-conf.html

Some videos about FTP: http://www.youtube.com/user/ILO98120/videos?query=ftp
Some videos about SSH: http://www.youtube.com/user/ILO98120/videos?query=ssh

[jonezy187]

I finally found a program called TeamViewer which has a file transfer option on top of a remote desktop client which is perfect for what i was after. thanks for your help.