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Mini Howto: Change an FTP / Ssh login password

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

While this mini howto article provides light instructions for obtaining putty, a terminal program for secure access to your linux server, detailed information is outside the scope of the article.

So, you want to change the password to your ftp/ssh login account on your linux server? No problem!

First, download putty for your windows based operating system and save it into a convenient directory. Copy and paste the following url into a new window:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

1) Launch the program putty.exe (or any other terminal program that supports ssh).

2) Enter your server name in the host name field, the same as you would enter for your ftp host. Example: server.simplecom.net or simply, domain.com

3) The server will ask you to login using your current login and password.

4) once logged in, you can simply execute the following command and press enter:

passwd

(pressing enter after the command passwd, will enable the server to prompt you. Following the prompts, pressing enter after each one.)

That is it! once you logout, your new password will be required for your next login.

Travis

-M3Server.com
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Mini Howto: FireFTP plugin for FireFox

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Tips for the popular FireFox plugin, FireFTP.

If you are an experienced user, just navigate to the “Account Manager” and click on the “Connection” tab. Clicking on the “Security” drop down menu, select SFTP.

That’s it, your all set.

Other points:

Initial Directories.

What is this? Well, this if to let the ftp client know what directory you want to upload to.

What is local?
Local is the name of the directory on your computer containing your web site files. Could be something like, c:\site\m3server.com

What is remote?
This can very, depending on what linux server you are on. Our older linux servers, the directory is “web”. Newer designs have the domain name as the name of the “web” directory. Example below:

If my domain was m3server.com:

old version:
web
new version:
m3server.com

How do I tell?
When you login the first time without setting the Initial Directories tab, you will see your directory structure. A quick listing will report what name your web directory is.

What is local?
Local is the name of the directory on your computer containing your web site files. Could be something like, c:\site\m3server.com

Download: FireFTP



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Mini Howto: DreamWeaver CS4 SFTP

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

>I can not connect with you using dreamweaver CS4

You have to use Secure FTP (SFTP)

- open Dreamweaver CS4
- on top, click on site
- click on manage site
- select your site, then click edit
- under category, select “Remote Info”
- Select “Use Secure FTP (SFTP)”
- click ok, then done

You are now ready to connect.

Note: If you have an Apple Mac, please see the following;

“Adobe trouble shooting guide said if anything  might help it would be to delete the configuration files at USER/LIBRARY/APPLICATION SUPPORT/ADOBE/DREAMWEAVER CS4/EN_SH/CONFIGURATION folder and it worked but stay away from the system library.”

- Thanks to Dwight for the Mac tip!



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Mini Howto: Email Client Setup

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Question: What is my pop3 Server?
Answer:   domain.com

To connect to your pop3 server via an email client such as thunderbird, check your settings.  The incoming mail server, or pop3 server, should be set to your domain without any specific host names attached.  So, if your domain was example-fishing.com, then your pop3 server name would simple be:

example-fishing.com  (not pop3.example-fishing.com).

Question: What is my smtp server?
Answer: domain.com or your ISP

You can send email from your domain hosted at M3Server.com by checking your settings.  The outgoing mail server, or smtp server, should be set to your domain without any specific host names attached like the above example:

example-fishing.com (not smtp.example-fishing.com)

You also need to select, “my server requires authentication”.  Do not select  SSL.  Use the same user name and password as your email account.

If your ISP blocks port 25, like AT&T (which is a good thing, it controls spam and viruses from dsl attached computer networks), you can instruct your email client to use port 587, the alternate sendmail port.

Of course, we recommend using your ISP’s smtp server to send email.   Since you are connected to the ISP, you have authorization to email via their smtp servers and local smtp servers to your computer is probably faster than sending through a remote server on a remote network.

Happy Emailing :)



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Mini Howto: FileZilla sftp connection

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Question: How to setup FileZilla for a sftp connection

So, you want to connect to your ftp account securely huh?  Outstanding! Evey security measure you take, keeps your site that much safer.

If you haven’t already done so, download FileZilla (link opens a new window so you don’t lose your blog,  here:

Install and launch FileZilla.

At the top of the window are 4 entry boxes and a quick connect button.  Let’s get connected shall we?

In the example below, we are going to pretend that our domain we want to connect to is domain.com, to keep things simple, just leave off the www.  The text box starts with [ and ends with ], please don’t enter them :)

Host: [domain.com]
Username: [bob99]
Password: [**********]
Port: [22]

Port 22 indicates secure port.

Click “Quickconnect”

A warning message is displayed the first time you connect.  This  security warning simply states that you haven’t connected to this server before and reports the finger print.  Click the check box to save the connection for future sessions.  Future connections will only display this message if your site changes servers, you connect FROM a different computer, or there is a security issue with your connection.

Now, not only was the hostname, user name, and password encrypted durring your session, but so is all your data being sent to the server.

If you have a dedicated server with us are using SFTP, please notify us so we can disable basic FTP on your server for further protection.  Dreamweaver also support SFTP, as does other FTP clients.

We hope you have enjoyed the Mini Howto: FileZilla sftp connection



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