FTP
The most difficult part of setting up FTP - File Transfer Protocol on Snow Leopard Server?
Finding the documentation!
Where are the apple docs?
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/resources/documentation.html
Which document in the set?
File Server Administration, then Chapter 7.
Highlights
"FTP works well when you want to transfer large files such as applications and databases. In addition, if you want to permit guest (anonymous) users to download files, FTP is a secure way to provide this service."
FTP can decompress archived documents "on the fly" for delivery to clients.
FTP service enforces ACL permissions.
Apple documentation describes in detail three different scenarios for tailoring the FTP service to the need at hand complete with diagrams.
It is really simple, once you get to the documentation.
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