Addendum to my first post. I should have included it.

Here is the web address to a site that taught me much. At the bottom of
eacht page are links to successive pages in the article. This is a very
worth while read.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1491

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

John Rodgers wrote:
> This topic has little to do with Vanagons except that it may enable us
> all to have a bit better means of communications - particularly or
> materials that are large in size.
>
> I have for some time wanted to be able to send large files several
> gigabytes in size over the Internet but due to the various constraints
> on the system and services provided by ISP's, I could not. Email
> attachments had to be very small, and other programs like Pondo, Google
> Talk, etc, though offering larger file transfers, were still restricted
> in size. --- and incredibly slow. So, I began studying about servers,
> and discovered personal servers. It turns out that Windows XP has a
> built in Server that when activated works reasonably well, but for best
> performance an computer security, a separate server software is in
> order. I chose a free program called FileZilla.
>
> I searched for it on the 'Net, downloaded and installed it. Now, if I
> have some big humongous file to share with you, I send you an IP
> Address, User ID, Passcode, and you can log in on my machine and
> download it to your PC.
>
> Control over the server is a security issue and is important. Many
> servers that get a high volume of traffic are often set up with the user
> being "anonymous" and no password. But for me, that is not safe. So
> every person invited to log onto my computer must have a user id
> assigned by me, and a password assigned by me. With those assignments
> you can log on, and can go only to a very specific folder where the
> posted file will be. There is a log file built so that I can capture the
> complete login and transaction. If I want to watch as it takes place,
> and I don't like what is happening, I can simply disconnect. you, the
> server or both. with a click of the mouse. Very handy. And, if I want to
> know where you are, all I need do is copy your IP Address from the
> transaction log file, go on the internet, and use any one of the free IP
> Address geo-location programs, and I can pinpoint exactly where your
> computer is located by Latitude and Longitude right down to the seconds
> --- then I can target my missile to that location and send a hard
> message!!!!  I am joking of course - but that really does work -
> locating the physical geographical location of any give computer
> connected to the Internet. In some ways it's a bit spooky.
>
> While trying to work the bugs out of my personal server system, I
> discovered attempts by unauthorized persons to log on. Of course without
> proper User ID and Passcode, they were unable. They did leave their IP
> Address however, and I looked up their geographical locations and
> targeted my missiles.  Again I am joking!!
> But I got log-in attempts from Brazil, Shanghai, China; New Delhi,
> India; Amsterdam, Netherlands. In looking at the log file, it would
> appear that they were using automated software to locate servers and
> attempt to log in. These are the turkeys that give reason to NOT having
> an Anonymous login, but a User ID and Passcode log-in.
>
> Anyway, I just thought I would put this out there this morning. This is
> one more way we can get more out of our computers, that can also have
> benefit for our list members.
>
> Give it a try.
>
> If you give it a go and have any questions, just ask. I'm no IT, but I
> will try to answer as best I can.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
>