Tony Fortunato is a Senior Network Specialist with experience in design, implementation, and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN/Wireless networks, desktops and servers since 1989. His background in financial networks includes design and implementation of trading floor networks. Tony has taught at local high schools, Colleges/Universities, Networld/Interop and many onsite private classroom settings to thousands of analysts.
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OSTU: HFS - HTTP Server for Windows (by Tony Fortunato & Peter Ciuffreda)
1. HFS ~ HTTP File Server 2.2f Training with Windows QuickStart Tony Fortunato, Sr Network Specialist Peter Ciuffreda, Network Technician The Technology Firm
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Hello, It’s Tony Fortunato And Peter Ciuffreda from the Technology Firm In this session, we are going to review HFS HTTP file server Enjoy
so What is HFS? HFS is a portable HTTP file server that we use to transfer files in the field and for testing What does this application require? Well actually it doesn’t require anything. All you need to do is download it and put it in any folder which you would like to access it from. In other words it’s a portable app. I guess I could also run it off of a portable storage device such as a USB flash drive. Yup, that’s right.
Why would we use HFS? Many times we need to share a file with a customer and due to their PC configurations we can’t use a Microsoft share, so HFS provides an easy alternative Didn’t we use it in the lab? Yes, we use it when gathering HTTP traces or putting a load on a network. So HFS helps with day to day file sharing as well as generating traffic?
The HFS application screen is pretty easy to figure out, but we thought we would point out some of the important parts.
Changing the port number is one of the most common things to modify. The only other thing you may want to change is selecting Expert mode to get more Menu Options To test the server operation, click on the ‘Open in Browser’ button, to the left of the ip address
Ok, I have HFS up and running, where’s the files? The next thing we need to do is to add files or directories to the File Pane. The easiest way to do this, is simply drag and drop your files or directories to the File Pane. The folder structure may be treated the same as you would with your windows folders
This step is entirely optional and you can still access all files in the file folder pane by default If you are concerned about privacy issues, you will want to setup user accounts and passwords. You should avoid creating generic or shared user accounts for groups of people.
I use all the panes for troubleshooting or performance analysis. I would use this to see who is accessing my files and to monitor how long downloads take on average. I also look at the current download speeds. Referencing the speed graph helps troubleshoot performance issues Looking at the Log, helps understand who is connecting and the commands sent. The Current Connection pane illustrates what the connections and users are specifically doing
This gets more into the advanced features where you can limit the bandwidth used by users. Not only does this help performance if the server is used quite a bit, but can be used for testing. For example, if you have a 5 Mb circuit, you can set HFS with a 625 KByte limit. That way we don’t overload the circuit from our 100 Mb connection
This slide illustrates setting a Bandwidth limit and monitoring the throughput. The download speed was checked 4 different ways on the server and 1 way on the web client.
This feature is helpful if you have an unidentified IP address accessing your server You must manually remove an entry from the ban list. Banning is less relevant if you have created user accounts. If you have an abusive user account, you can simply disable it
Thanks for listening. Have a good day folks, bye for now.