Monday, August 15, 2022

Xlight FTP Server

Windows network sharing is fine but maybe you don't want to bother setting it up and then removing the share. Or maybe you are on Linux and Samba is being difficult. FTP is a good option.

I don't use an FTP server often and forget how to set it up. This is simple but here it is.
No install necessary - stand alone.
 
Start Xlight and add a server. No need to change the Dynamic IP.

You can check the actual IP by clicking the drop box arrow.

The server list will show IP 0.0.0.0 unless you actually choose the actual IP but it will work fine.
It is handy to choose the actual IP to always see the connection address.

Click the guy in the top menu and set up a user and folder.
Anonymous and no password works fine or use a name and password.




This is where you set up login, password and home directory to share.
Anonymous with no password works fine on local network. 

Click the icon next to browse under Home Directory
Xlight defaults to read only so if you need to copy files in both directions "write" needs to be checked.

The "write" setting can be changed later by clicking the guy again, clicking the edit icon on the right, clicking User Path, double click the virtual path.
Wow, that's a lot of clicking.



Access from another PC with an FTP client like Winscp or Filezilla client or
browser "ftp://IP Address:21
Set Winscp to ftp
Install client of Linux (sudo apt install filezilla)





Sunday, August 7, 2022

Dell XPS13 Black Screen

2022-09-16 So I reset Windows and it helped but still happens occasionally.
I see so many mentions of this online it would keep me from Dell laptops in the future.

2022-09-06 Well, that didn't last long. It's Baaack. No, "fast start" is not on but shut down didn't temp fix, only restart so feels like a "fast start" issue.
2022-08-31 I normally do not allow Windows update to install drivers. Why? Who knows? But WU found a Dell firmware and an Intel driver that Dell did not find so . . . That seemed to finally fix things.
But I've claimed victory before.

Try win + ctl + shift + b to reset the video driver.
Although this can help it is not a solution.
The only thing I have found is to turn all screen turn off options disabled.

Pin Not Available

Crazy Error I had not seen before. Pin not available blah blah. I restarted a few times and it finally worked. If it doesn't some say to...