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First of all we are going to install a basic configuration of a FTP server on Ubuntu 10.04.

Just following these steps should be easy to setup the configuration.

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     To let the clients upload files to the server we should change
             #write_enable = YES to write_enable = YES
      3.  Everytime we make any change we have to restart the vsftpd, in order to make the changes      effective.

After that we had installed a server in Linux with the local Ubuntu system account.

The FTP client in is going to be on Windows O.S. As a FTP client we can access to the server to upload and download files (note that we can upload files because we change the default setting in the vsftpd.conf)
To access to the server we have two ways:#

  1. With the Windows console
  2. With a cross-platform FTP client, for example FilezillaWith Filezilla

With the console

In the client console we have to open a FTP session with the IP address of the server.
Then we have to log in with the system account and with the FTP commands we can upload files to the server and download files directly to our directory from the server.

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