TFTP Server Install and Setup

TFTP Server Install and Setup

1. Install following packages.

   sudo apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp
   

2. Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and put this entry

   service tftp
   {
   protocol = udp
   port = 69
   socket_type = dgram
   wait = yes
   user = nobody
   server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
   server_args = /tftpboot
   disable = no
   }
   

3. Create a folder /tftpboot this should match whatever you gave in server_args. mostly it will be tftpboot

   sudo mkdir /tftpboot
   sudo chmod -R 777 /tftpboot
   sudo chown -R nobody /tftpboot
   

4. Restart the xinetd service.

   newer systems:

   sudo service xinetd restart
   

   older systems:

   sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
   

Now our tftp server is up and running.

Testing our tftp server

5. Create a file named test with some content in /tftpboot path of the tftp server.

   Obtain the ip address of the tftp server using ifconfig command

6. Now in some other system follow the following steps.

   tftp 192.168.1.2
   tftp> get test
   Sent 159 bytes in 0.0 seconds
   
   tftp> quit
   
   cat test
   

Source: http://mohammadthalif.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/installing-and-testing-tftpd-in-ubuntudebian/