TFTP Server Install and Setup

1. Install following packages.

$ sudo apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp

1. 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
}

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

$ sudo mkdir /tftpboot

$ sudo chmod -R 775 /tftpboot
-or-
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /tftpboot

$ sudo chown -R nobody /tftpboot

1. Restart the xinetd service.

Newer systems:

$ sudo service xinetd restart

Older systems:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

1. Now our tftp server is up and running.

Testing TFTP Server

1. 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

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

$ tftp 192.168.1.2
tftp> get test
Received 159 bytes in 0.0 seconds

tftp> quit

$ cat test

Reference

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/201505/how-do-i-install-and-run-a-tftp-server