FTP: What's your choice for FREE?

[dalecosp]

Sure. See attached --- this one culled from FreeBSD 5.4 --- a gazillon other versions available, perhaps, but the instructions should be about the same.

[dalecosp]

Oh, BTW, weedpacket was probably just joshing me. 🙂

[Sxooter]

What, don't your primitive ftp clients support this command:

set authentication ssl

and since I use it to talk to a mainframe halfway across the country that another company owns, no, I can't use scp.

What's that saying about everything looking like a nail when all you've got is a hammer?

[Weedpacket]

set authentication ssl

I still think "ssh" is easier to type..... I suppose I could create a file with that in it and have "ssh" run "ftp -s:ssl.config"....

What I want to know is: what does everything look like when all you've got is a Swiss Army knife?

A horse's hoof, probably....

[Sxooter]

Yeah, but that mainframe still doesn't know what ssh is either...

Heck, we even had to program our ftp server to send out responses on our ftp port for the mainframe to understand it. Sometimes, I really do think dinosaurs still roam the land.

[ATS16805]

hmph. i guess i'll go to the back of the room and sit at my desk. (sniff...sniff...)

[Sxooter]

From the man page for scp:

NAME
scp - secure copy (remote file copy program)

DESCRIPTION
scp copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh(1) for data
transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the same secu-
rity as ssh(1). Unlike rcp(1), scp will ask for passwords or
passphrases if they are needed for authentication.

 Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate that
 the file is to be copied to/from that host.  Copies between two remote
 hosts are permitted.

[bubblenut]

I think I've mentioned this on here before, if I have I appologise.

My client of choice? KDE, might sound odd but when you hear about it's kio modules for scp (fish), ftp, http, the list goes on. What is really cool about kio modules is that they're built right into KDE so they can be used in any KDE applications. I can open a file in kate or kdevelop using fish (let's say fish://[e-mail]/file.php) edit it, save it and it will be saved on the remote server, how cool is that? 😃 If it's file management you need then just open up the path in konqueror and drag and drop your files as if it were a local directory.

Incidentally, I recently found out that you can do the same with vim using "vim scp://[e-mail]//file.php".

[Weedpacket]

I do like kioslaves. I really do. I'm reminded of Plan 9's idea that "everything is a filesystem". Just opening "audiocd:/mp3/" and then copying the files listed there....

[bubblenut]

kioslaves, I thought kio modules didn't sound right but I couldn't be bothered to check 🙂

One thing that confuses me about the audiocd one is that through konqueror I can copy mp3's from a cd to my machine without any trouble but if I try to use KAudioCreator - which I'd have thought would be using the same tools - it fails completely. Oh well, drag and drop's easier anyway.

[JPnyc]

I use smart FTP at work and home.