Can I Use my old laptop as a server via FTP?

[Joosh]

Okay, so I built a pc so now I dont need my old laptop for anything. However, I would like to start a small minecraft server (like 8 people) for me and my friends to screw around on.
So heres my idea:
Hook my laptop up to my modem via ethernet (my PC is wireless). (I get an upload speed of around 5mbps when wired, like 1mbps wireless)
Then I find Some way to be able to access my laptop Remotely via my PC. (FTP? Idk whatever is fastest) Then just set up the server on my laptop and keep it running.
My laptop has 4 gigs of ram, and uses a AMD A4-Quad Core CPU


Also, could I use Window's Remote desktop connection? What is it?

 

[jsmithepa]

As long as the upload speed is acceptable, it should work.

As with anything that you want to configure as an Internet server, the basic steps are:

1. Install and run server software on server box.
2. Configure server box with static LAN IP.
3. Configure your Internet router to Port Forward Internet service request back to your server box.
(the above step, in layman term says, anytime someone on the internet wants mine craft service, forward this request to the proper LAN box).
4. If you have static WAN IP, great. If you don't then you need to setup a DDNS service. So that your friends out there, all they have to do is something like "minecraft.joosh.com" because they are not going to call every time and ask, "what's your WAN IP today?"

Go at it!