[Novices] public ftp access

[Steve Petersen]

Hey folks,

Thanks again for your patience.  I have another question.

The reason I asked about directory permissions and the like is all to 
help a poor friend of mine living temporarily in Malaysia and dying for 
Christmas music.  It's tough to be homesick in a foreign land, I know! 
I'm trying to get her some mp3s of Christmas music.  Time is a factor!

So I've got /var/ftp set up nicely.  And I set up an account for her on 
the machine.  But my office box, running untinkered FC3, of course 
doesn't like regular ftp connections.  And my friend of course runs 
Windows, has never heard of ftp before, etc.  And of course Windows has 
a rudimentary CLI ftp program, but no sftp.

So:

* how do I allow her account to ftp in?  I don't know her domain or IP 
or anything, and I doubt she does.

* instead of leading her through the clumsy Windows command line of ftp, 
or downloading a third-party program, is there a way I can give her a 
simple url for her browser, like ftp://kelly.kzoo.edu?  What is the 
default account info a browser uses when making a connection like this? 
  Do I just set up an "anonymous" account?  What do I use for password?

Of course I wouldn't say out loud that, if I set this up, others on the 
klug list would be welcome to some of the Christmas music too.

(But I would appreciate knowing if there are security risks!)

Steve