https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/ 2026-11-04T02:45:46+00:00 https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/ https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/lib/tpl/argon/images/favicon.ico text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:connect:ftp&rev=1793671856&do=diff FTP downloads (PBFtp) Callers can download files from your board with any FTP program, such as FileZilla, WinSCP, lftp or curl. They log in with their own BBS name and password and see one folder for each file area they may use. It is download only: there is no upload, delete or rename, and no real folder of your disk is ever visible. text/html 2026-11-03T05:56:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:connect:host_filter&rev=1793656574&do=diff Host Filter Login Guard slows down and bans an address after it has failed to log in. Host Filter works before that. It refuses connections from addresses already known to be bad, so a bot never reaches the logon screen. It works like the blocklists in a firewall. The lists are downloaded on a schedule and kept in memory, and each new connection is checked against them locally in microseconds. There is no text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:connect:login_guard&rev=1793671856&do=diff Login Guard Anyone who can reach your Telnet, RLogin, SSH or FTP port can sit there trying passwords. Login Guard makes that slow and eventually impossible, without getting in the way of real callers who mistype once. It is modelled on the login protection in Synchronet. text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:connect:nntp&rev=1793671856&do=diff News (NNTP) PBNntp turns your message areas into newsgroups, so callers can read and post with a newsreader instead of a terminal program. It was written for PBMessages, the desktop reader and editor, but any newsreader works: Thunderbird, Pan, slrn, tin, gnus and others. text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:connect:pbterm&rev=1793671856&do=diff PBTerm: terminal program PBTerm is a Windows terminal program for calling any BBS, including yours. It is installed in your ProBoard folder. [PBTerm] Figure 1. PBTerm connected to a board. Connecting Phonebook entries have a Protocol: Telnet (port 23), RLogin (513) or SSH (22). The port follows the protocol when you change it. text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:connect:rlogin&rev=1793671856&do=diff RLogin PBDispatch can listen for RLogin connections, by default on port 513, as well as Telnet. An RLogin client sends a short handshake with a user name before any text is exchanged. PBDispatch reads it, decides whether the caller may be logged in automatically, and starts a normal text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:connect:ssh&rev=1793671856&do=diff SSH PBDispatch has its own SSH server. Callers log in with their own BBS user name and password; no Windows account, no OpenSSH and no helper program are needed. After the SSH login they go straight into the board on the next free node, already logged in. text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:connect:telnet&rev=1793671856&do=diff Telnet Telnet is the main way callers reach a ProBoard board. Every Telnet caller, and every caller of the in-browser web terminal, connects to one shared port on the PBDispatch computer. PBDispatch accepts the connection and starts a ProBoard.exe node for it. text/html 2026-11-03T10:10:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.proboardbbs.com/wiki/Current/doku.php?id=v4:connect:web&rev=1793671856&do=diff Web portal (PBWeb) PBWeb lets people use your board from a web browser: browse and download files, read and post messages in every supported message-base format, register, sign in with their board account, and use an in-browser terminal. PBDispatch owns the web port and starts a