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FTP Clients and Servers for Zeta

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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