File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is tailor-made for quickly moving
large files between a remote computer acting as an FTP Server and
a FTP client that lets you access and upload those files. Most of
us are probably much happier accessing FTP servers using GUI tools,
instead of from a shell.
Unfortunately, FTP is not easy to work with behind firewalls, and
it transmits its passwords unencrypted. If you set up a noadmin
user account only for the file transfer, the password issue shouldn’t
be much of an issue. A good rule is to not set up an FTP server,
before having discussed it with your network administrator. My guess
is, that the administrator will say NO!
FTP servers
Campus
and SoloFTP
are two servers available on BeBits.
Campus is a full featured FTP server - compliant to the Internet
standard documents RFC 959 and 1123. Although Zeta doesn't support
multiple users, campus has both multiple users and groups which
allow easier configuration. Campus supports extensions the FTP protocol
that allows up- and download of the extended attributes used in
BFS.
FTP clients
NetPenguin
has all the basic filemanagement features that you can expect from
such a client: drag-and-drop filemanagement, move and delete files
on the server, and keep a list of bookmarks for quick access to
the most used servers.
You can have multiple connections, and upload and download at the
same time. NetPenguin also has features for resuming broken downloads.
i.Ftp
is a simple open source graphical FTP client for Zeta. The client
supports Socks5 proxies, resumable ftp and http download and abortable
transfers.
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