linux solutions for private network

there is a private network:

{internet}
|
|
{firewall} ---- {DMZ}
|
|
{FILE_SERVER}

FILE_SERVER is running windows os
DMZ server is running linux

Is there any good solution for internet users to get files from the
FILE_SERVER?
We can make use of the DMZ linux server (like to do synchronization...)

I forgot. Internet users are using windows and they are not good at
technical approach.

> there is a private network:
>
> {internet}
> |
> |
> {firewall} ---- {DMZ}
> |
> |
> {FILE_SERVER}
>
> FILE_SERVER is running windows os
> DMZ server is running linux
>
> Is there any good solution for internet users to get files from the
> FILE_SERVER?
> We can make use of the DMZ linux server (like to do synchronization...)
>

Possibly adjust the firewall (if possible) to let FTP (or whatever port
number) through to the {FILE_SERVER}.

Lin Qi wrote:
> I forgot. Internet users are using windows and they are not good at
> technical approach.
>
>> there is a private network:
>>
>> {internet}
>> |
>> |
>> {firewall} ---- {DMZ}
>> |
>> |
>> {FILE_SERVER}
>>
>> FILE_SERVER is running windows os
>> DMZ server is running linux
>>
>> Is there any good solution for internet users to get files from the
>> FILE_SERVER?
>> We can make use of the DMZ linux server (like to do synchronization...)
>>
>

The easiest solution, if you can open the firewall:
1. Open up port 80 and/or 443 (ssl) in the firewall
(if you need password protection you need ssl)
2. Install a http server (iis or pws is easiest).
3. Turn on directory index so users get a list of the files available
(no need for html editing this way :-).
4. Then password protect the directory/files through NTFS permissions if
needed.

If you want to use the linux server, this is how I
synchronize files from windows to linux via ftp: (not very pretty ;-)

1. Make a wsh script (or whatever) which records all files (filenames)
in a directory, and puts them in a textfile (c:\sync\ftpcommand.txt) in
a certain format. This textfile will be fed to ftp.exe later.
It should look like this:

user ftpuser ftppassword
lcd c:\sync\files
put file1.zip
put file2.zip
quit

2. Then create a batch file (c:\sync\dosync.bat) like this:

ftp -n -d -s:c:\sync\ftpcommands.txt [linux-ip-address]

3. Make a new entry in sheduled tasks, and browse for the batch file


Hope this helps,

- Øyvind Henriksen



"Lin Qi" <(E-Mail Removed)> skrev i melding
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> I forgot. Internet users are using windows and they are not good at
> technical approach.
>
> > there is a private network:
> >
> > {internet}
> > |
> > |
> > {firewall} ---- {DMZ}
> > |
> > |
> > {FILE_SERVER}
> >
> > FILE_SERVER is running windows os
> > DMZ server is running linux
> >
> > Is there any good solution for internet users to get files from the
> > FILE_SERVER?
> > We can make use of the DMZ linux server (like to do synchronization...)
> >
>

"Lin Qi" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bfrhhs$1nvm$(E-Mail Removed)...
> there is a private network:
>
> {internet}
> |
> |
> {firewall} ---- {DMZ}
> |
> |
> {FILE_SERVER}
>
> FILE_SERVER is running windows os
> DMZ server is running linux
>
> Is there any good solution for internet users to get files from the
> FILE_SERVER?
> We can make use of the DMZ linux server (like to do synchronization...)

The best way depends on what kind of access control you need. If you
just want to allow anonymous downloads the easy way is to use smbmount
on the firewall to make a read only mount of a share from the windows
server under the ftp server directory.

---
Les Mikesell
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