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What is FileZilla? FileZilla is cross-platform
FTP software. FileZilla is available for free

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as open source software. It contains both
a Client and Server. Support for FTP, SFTP,

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and FTPS Supports Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Features include Upload and download bandwidth

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limits, Compression, Encryption, Message logging,
Let’s download and install the Filezilla

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Server. Open a web browser like “Internet
Explorer”. In the “Address Bar”, enter

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“http://filezilla-project.org/” Under
“Quick download links”, click the “Download

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FileZilla Server” button. Under “Windows”,
click the download link. On the “Download

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Information Bar”, click the “Run” button.
This will download the file and then automatically

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start the installer. The FileZilla installer
will open up. On the “License Agreement”

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screen, read the license agreement, and then
click the “I Agree” button. On the “Choose

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Components” screen, leave “Standard”
selected, and then click the “Next” button.

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On the “Choose Install Location” screen,
click the “Next” button. On the “Startup

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settings” screen, leave “Install as service
started with Windows” selected. Under “Please

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choose the port”, choose the port you want
to use for the listening port. This is the

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port to connect to the admin interface. We
will leave the default of “14147”. Click

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the “Next” button. On the “Startup Settings”
screen, leave the default of “Start if user

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logs on, apply to all users” selected, and
click the “Install” button. On the “Installation

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Complete” screen, click the “Close”
button. We left the option checked to automatically

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start the server management password, which
by default is blank. Leave the defaults selected

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and click the “OK” button. You will then
see it is “Logged on”. Let’s now setup

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the server. Click the “Edit” menu, then
“Settings”. “General settings”. The

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default settings are fine for this screen.
Looking by “Listen on these ports” we

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can see that it is set to use port “21”.
This is the standard FTP port. “Welcome

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Message”. Here you set the message users
will get when they log onto the server. Let’s

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enter a simple message of “Welcome to my
server”. “IP Bindings”. Here you can

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set which IP addresses on the server it will
bind the server to. By default it will use

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“*” to represent all adapters. “IP Filter”.
This is used to block out specific IP addresses.

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If you have problem users or hackers trying
to penetrate your server, you can block them

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out here. “Miscellaneous”. Let’s place
a check next to “Start Minimized”. This

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will start the server directly to the system
tray. You won’t have to close down the application

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when it pops up each time you start the computer.
“Admin Interface Settings”. Here you can

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set allowed and denied IP addresses or ranges.
By default all addresses are allowed. Let’s

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click to select “Change admin password:”.
Enter the password twice. Here will will just

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use “password” for the password. “Logging”.
Its a good idea to keep track of what is happening

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on your FTP server. Let’s click to select
“Enable logging to file”. If you have

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a low usage server leaving “Log all to ‘FileZilla
Server.log” selected is probably fine. You

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can select “Limit log file size to” a
reasonable size, and then it will split off

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to another file. This helps view very large
files that would hang up your system. If you

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have a high usage server you will probably
want to select “Use a different logfile

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each day”. The log files are all stored
in the FileZilla installation folder inside

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a folder named “Logs”. By default this
is “C:\Program Files (x86)\FileZilla Server\Logs”.

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“Speed Limits”. This is where you can
set maximum download and upload speeds for

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the server. If the server is heavily used
and you want to make sure that there is bandwidth

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available for all your other Internet needs
you can limit the speeds. “Autoban”. You

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may want to enable Autoban to prevent someone
from hacking into your server. Click 
the “OK” button to apply the changes.

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Let’s close out of the admin interface and
log back in with our new password. Now we

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could just create a user to 
access the system, but we are going to also
create a group with base settings for all

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our users. Click the “Edit” menu, then
select “Groups”. To create a new group,

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click the “Add” button. On the “Add
user group” window, enter a name, and click

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the “OK” button. We’ll call this one
“Normal Users”. “General”. Make sure

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“Enable access for users inside group”
is selected. “Shared folders”. This is

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where we set the folders we want to give the
users access to. Under the “Directories”

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pane, click the “Add” button. A “Browse
for Folder” window will open. Browse to

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and select the folder you want to share. I
browse to the “X” drive, “FTP”, and

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then click “Normal Users” to highlight
it blue. Click the “OK” button to select

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the folder. We only have one folder in the
list so it is already our home folder. This

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is the folder the users will be dropped into
when they log on. There is an “H” next

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to the listing showing it is the home folder.
If you have more than one you would click

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the “Set as home dir” button. For each
directory we have permissions for the “Files”

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and “Directories”. By default users can
list the contents of the directory, and sub

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directories, as well as the ability to read
the files. You can give the users the ability

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to “Create” or “Delete” directories,
as well as “Write” or “Delete” files.

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“Speed Limits”. We already saw where we
could set speed limits for the server as a

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whole. Here we can set download and upload
speed limits for this user group. “IP Filter”.

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Here you can set addresses not allowed to
access the server when logging into this group.

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Once everything is setup correctly, click
the “OK” button. All that did was create

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a group. There isn’t an actual account we
can use to log into the server next. To do

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this we need to create a new “User”. Click
the “Edit” menu, then select “Users”.

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We can see that the “Users” menu that
opens is exactly the same as the “Groups”

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window we looked at previously. Under “Users”,
click the “Add” button. The “Add user

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account” window will open. Enter a name
for the new user. Let’s name this user “User1”.

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Under where it says “User should be a member
of the following group”, we can see it currently

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says “none”. Leaving it set to none will
create a new user that is not in any group.

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This means that all settings for this user
come from the user settings. If we click the

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drop down we can see our group “Normal Users”.
Let’s select it. This will use all the settings

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to “User1” that we setup in the “Normal
Users” group. We can then add or remove

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additional settings on the user level. Click
the “OK” button to create the user. If

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we look in the boxes on the “General”
tab we can see that the boxes are filled with

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blue. This means that they are inheriting
the permissions from their part group, which

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is “Normal Users”. If we click the box
next to “Enable account” one time it will

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deselect it. If we click it one more time,
it will show a check. The check means we are

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overriding the group settings and are enabling
it at the user level. The blank box means

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we are overriding the group settings and disabling
it at the user level. Let’s click it one

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more time to get back to the blue box, which
are taking on the group settings. Every user

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should have a password. Click to select “Password:”.
Enter a password. I will user password again.

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“Shared folders”. In addition to the directories
we have in the group settings we can add additional

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folders. Let’s click the “Add” button
under “Shared Folders”. On the “Browse

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for Folder” window that opens, browse to
and select the folder to share. I will share

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out a folder in the “X:\FTP\” folder called
“Private”. This is going to be a user

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with special access to this private folder.
Let’s give them full rights by enabling

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everything. Now the user has access to this
new folder, but would not be able to navigate

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out of the home folder into the “Private”
folder. To be able to change to this folder

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we need to set an alias for the folder. Right-click
on the shared folder and select “Edit Aliases”.

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We will enter “/PrivateLink” for the alias
name. It is essential that you have the “/” or

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it won’t work. If you want you can also
adjust “Speed Limits” and “IP Filters”.

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Now let’s just click the “OK” button
to create the new user. Let’s connect to

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the server with the built in Windows FTP client.
I will be creating a tutorial about using

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the FileZilla client, but for simplicity I
will just use the Windows FTP Client. We’ll

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click the “Start” button, “All Programs”,
“Accessories”, and then select “Command

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Prompt”. At the command prompt we’ll type
“ftp localhost” and press enter. Here

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we can see the 
welcome message we set before of “Welcome
to my Server”. We’ll enter “User1”

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for the username and “password” for the
password. we are now in the home directory

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from our group settings. We can’t see what
folder this is on the server for use it is

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just the root folder defined as “/”. let’s
list the directory contents by entering “dir”

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and pressing enter. Here we can see the “NormalUsers.txt”
file I created so we would know we were in

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the “Normal Users” folder from the group.
We also have the link “PrivateLink” that

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links to the “Private” folder we shared
in our user settings. let’s enter that directory

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with “cd PrivateLink”. List the contents
again with “dir”. In this folder we can

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see the “Private.txt” file showing we
are in the “Private” folder. Let’s create

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a new folder to test our write permissions.
Enter “mkdir test”, to make a new folder

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named test. Now if we enter “dir” again,
we can see our test folder. Let’s back back

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out to our home folder. Enter “cd ..” and
press enter. If we enter “dir” again we

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can see we are in the “Normal Users” folder.
Let’s try to create a folder here. Enter

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“mkdir test” and press enter. We get a
message saying “Can’t create directory.

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Permission Denied”. You should now have
FileZilla downloaded and installed, a group

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and user created, and have a good idea how
to manage file and directory access.