iis ftp: I have some files. I want a friend of mine copy these files from my
computer.

friend of mine told me that I can set up something like:
ftp://george123:george123@24.175.131.84:27

What are these numbers? How do I set it up

Zz the number is actually your public IP address.
So you first need to make sure that you are connected to internet, and then
ftp related ports are open.
and typically you will need to enable port forwarding so that request that
hit your modem/router will be forwarded to the internal machine.

detail as of how? check your router/modem documentation.

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.iis.net/
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/


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Hi Mark,

Bernard gave you the information on how to setup FTP. I wanted to provide
additional information on the URL that you provided.

According to the specification of URL formats, an FTP URL is of the form
ftp://user:password@host:port/path

so that some or all of the parts user:password@, :password, :port and /path
may be excluded.

The components obey the following rules:

user
a user name (user id) on the host
password
the password corresponding to the user name; note: if the user and
password field in a URL contains character : or @ or /, the character must
be encoded
host
the fully qualified domain name of a network host, or its IP address
port
the port number to connect to; it omitted, defaults to 21
path
path specification of the form
cwd1/cwd2/.../cwdN/name
(where any occurrence of / or ; within a cwdi or the name must be encoded)
optionally followed by
;type=typecode
where typecode is one of the characters a, i, d
So in the URL below, george123 is the username, george123 is the password,
24.175.131.84 would be replaced with your external, routable, IP address,
and 27 is the port. FTP servers are usually on port 21, but many ISPs block
that port so you may need to use a non standard port such as 27. You would
need to make sure that the FTP server that you setup on your end was
configured to listen on the appropriate port.

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Rick Barber

http://www.orcsweb.com
Managed Complex Hosting
#1 in Service and Support

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