Installing and Configuring TFTP Server on Linux

• Install
• yum install tftp-server
• Setup 
• nano /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
• Find disable = yes, make it no 
• change server_args to the location that you want the root of the tftp server to be in 
• -v is necessary so the tftp will log all requests 
• -c option allows you to upload files to the tftp server without them first existing
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  server_args             = -v -s /tftpboot 

• Start TFTP Server (Note: auto-startup tftp might not be good idea)
•  /sbin/chkconfig tftp on
• /sbin/chkconfig xinetd on
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  /sbin/service xinetd start 

• Testing
•  touch /tftpboot/test
• From another computer, Linux, OS X:
• tftp [ip of tftp server]
• tftp get test
• tftp quit
• From another computer, Windows OS:
• tftp 192.168.0.1 GET test
• If you can see “test” under the current directory, then this TFTP server should work properly.
• If not, check the firewall, open UDP port 69. You can run system-config-security to open it.
• You can use grep tftp /var/log/messages to see the log