file transfer initiation

[Como]

im looking for a way to send commands to my fileserver through the internet...such as a file transfer initiation.

Anywhere i may be, i would like to have my server start an internet download....without using a large portion of bandwidth to initiate it (because my home upload is slow, and often times out when i try and do something...and sometimes i connect to it with less than a 1kbs connection)

right now the server rins on xp pro, but i plan on switching it to some linux distro at some point.

is there a way to do this in iether?

[David]

SSH and Wget seem like what you need. These work in Linux happily, not sure about windows.

Just do ssh 127.0.0.1 (replace with your IP) and then login as a user and then wget http://www.website.com/I/want/this/file.exe

[Como]

how would i go about settiing up an SSH server on a windows box?

does that work on default open ports? (like 80 and 21?)

[Cyberwiz01]

http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/
That is a windows port of SSH, I have never personally used it, I just did a google search for "SSH for Windows" and it was among the listed results. To connect you will also need an SSH client on the machine that you will be connecting on. I like to use PuTTY and I keep a copy on my USB thumb drive so I have access to it wherever I go.

If you don't like command lines much, you might also want to give VNC a shot. It offers a remote GUI server and viewer, so you can view your whole windows desktop from wherever you are. Keep in mind though, that it is fairly intensive on bandwith, and lags quite a bit on slower connections. There are various flavors of VNC, like RealVNC, TightVNC, and Ultr@VNC my personal favorite is Ultr@VNC but all of them work well.