Re: FN-FORUM: FTP connections

date posted 17th January 2006 21:21

Filezilla is also an excellent, free, ftp program for windows.

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

And Fugu is another good, free, osx one.

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/

a


> It would really be better to use an FTP program, like FlashFXP for
> Windows or Transmit or Cyberduck for OS X (Cyberduck is free, Transmit
> is a bit better, interface-wise. Transmit and FlashFXP cost a little
> money, but well worth it in time saved in hassle.)
>
> The normal problem I hit is different passive modes on different
> servers
> - some of my clients have passive mode 'on' on their servers, others
> have it 'off' and sometimes something in their setup stops my FTP
> program realising that passive mode is set incorrectly. If the passive
> setting isn't obvious, it's usually in the 'advanced' settings for a
> site, I have no idea how a web browser would set it.
>
> Glad to hear the publishing industry is finally growing up and moving
> away from bloody ISDN, which used to be a right pain when I was
> sending
> files to publishers.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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