How to make a file sharing server?

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I am trying to build my server into a file server. I want to be able to have people login to a user account to my server and from there be able to download files from my server. But only set it up in a way where certain users have access to certain files.

Basically i want a server where a user can upload his files from his computer to keep them safe, and be able to log back in and re-download them back to their computer if needed. Please help.
 
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The ideal would be a Windows or Linux server. This would need accounts setup on the machine (assuming it's not a slave to a domain controller). For Windows you would setup a number of shares and assign security permissions for the folder held within them. For Linux you would do roughly the same through access control lists, but I'm not so sure how this would be setup.

If you're looking to simply convert an existing Windows pc I would suggest looking at fileZilla. FileZilla is an FTP server which runs on Windows. It can be setup with a number of user accounts and multiple shares. I'm not so sure whether you can set permissions on subfolders as it's not something I've played around with.
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An FTP server would probably be easiest to setup, although somehow I doubt that this will match your expectation.
 
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The ideal would be a Windows or Linux server. This would need accounts setup on the machine (assuming it's not a slave to a domain controller). For Windows you would setup a number of shares and assign security permissions for the folder held within them. For Linux you would do roughly the same through access control lists, but I'm not so sure how this would be setup.

If you're looking to simply convert an existing Windows pc I would suggest looking at fileZilla. FileZilla is an FTP server which runs on Windows. It can be setup with a number of user accounts and multiple shares. I'm not so sure whether you can set permissions on subfolders as it's not something I've played around with.
 
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