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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The FTP server is for external users to access data from us. I currently have it on a Windows server, so there is a shared folder access that internal users can dump the files into the appropriate folders, rather than using FTP software or the web interface. So ideally I could setup a share like that again.
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There's got to be a service that would serve this need that wouldn't require you to maintain a server yourself for, but I can't think of anything specifically. Dropbox or something similar.
(How can you tell I try to find the laziest way to do something lol)
For what you describe (and I've never done this myself so this is all theoretical and maybe it's harder than I know) I'd setup a Samba share on an Ubuntu/CentOS box either with no limitations if there's no need to restrict access to only certain internal users or maybe a shared credential that gets cached on each workstation. AD integration can be done with Linux AFAIK and I assume with a Samba share as well but I have no idea how.
But a Samba share should make it easy for Windows clients to connect to the server internally.
For the external FTP same kind of thing.. if it's read only and a single read only account will do, a local account on the Linux box will suffice. If multiple accounts are needed then those can still be local to the Linux box, but then it maybe becomes a maintenance burden (depending on how often things change). And if you integrate with AD then there'd probably be a way to set FTP access via the AD accounts (maybe not with the built in server though) and you can maintain the external access via AD accounts too.
But I'd rather pay some service $20 a month to manage all that nonsense for me if I could
