Setup FTP

benn11 · #1 Dec 6, 2007, 04:37 AM

How do you setup a PC to receive files from an FTP server? I guess making a PC an FTP client?

KeepItSimpleStupid · Dec 6, 2007, 06:30 AM

typing ftp://<url> in your browser should work.

For anonymous FTP, the user name is ftp or anonymous and your email address should be the password.

retsoksirhc · Dec 6, 2007, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by KeepItSimpleStupid

typing ftp://<url> in your browser should work.

For anonymous FTP, the user name is ftp or anonymous and your email address should be the password.

If you have problems connecting to the server, or getting files, with Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can also use Filezilla!, which is a free FTP client. It works pretty well, it's when I use when Fitrefox and IE don't work, and when I need to transfer lots of files.

FileZilla - The free FTP solution

benn11 · Dec 7, 2007, 03:32 AM

let me again revise my question, how do you setup a PC to receive a file from a server? i don't want to login the server to retrieve files but for the PC to receive files unattended.

retsoksirhc · Dec 7, 2007, 05:55 AM

If you want to put files on the PC without any user intervention, you need to either have an FTP server set up on the PC, which you can connect to and upload files from the other computer, or set up an FTP server on the other computer and have a script that automatically downloads the file set up on the PC (if you look at my previous post, you can do this with the command line FTP client, and a file that contains a lit of commands).

benn11 · Dec 11, 2007, 10:52 PM

I really don't know how to say this, but can you start a service"FTP" on windows to receive files from other platform? without use of commands to retrieve files from the sender?

retsoksirhc · Dec 12, 2007, 04:29 AM

You can install an FTP server on windows, but you have to use an FTP client to upload files to it, and if you want that to be automated, you have to use a script.

KeepItSimpleStupid · Dec 12, 2007, 05:53 AM

Usually someone on some side has to intervene.

You running a server and them sending or they run a server and you sending.
FTP is difficult to get working in home networks because of how FTP is implemented. Passive mode generally has to be used.

scp or secure copy only uses one port and it's not as tempermental.



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