FTP Client

thornc

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SmartFTP
It's free, works through a sereis of different proxies/firewalls, has diferrent download queues. Multi-Thread download etc...
Just look into their feature page....

 

Chooco

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i can only think of 3 reasons to have an FTP client
-YOU ARE ON LINUX
-YOU ARE ON LINUX
-YOU ARE ON LINUX

in windows you can just open FTP sites in Internet Explorer. bookmark FTP sites, download a file by right clicking and selecting "copy to folder" and upload by dragging a file into the FTP folder window.
in Linux, you just can't do that. i was at my buddy's house when he found a real cool thing for Linux, instead of just emailing me the link we decided to upload it to me through FTP (my ftp server is on windows box). we opened up Konqueror and typed in ftp://mysite.whatever but it would give an error. we opened up Mozilla and typed in the URL, it brought up the FTP site but it would give us an error when we tried to copy a file from his puter then try to paste it in the FTP site or just drag the file into the FTP site. we download an FTP client program and by using it we were able to upload the file.

BSD would probably need one too.
 

madthumbs

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Flash fxp; Supports resume, catalogs ftp sites, and sports many features you would like in an ftp program. IE sucks for ftp browsing.
 

Nothinman

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<< In windows you can just open FTP sites in Internet Explorer. >>



IE's FTP support is so bad I would rather open a raw TCP connection and type all the FTP commands in manually.
 

Nothinman

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Queue downloads for later.

Write a script to automatically download or upload a file.
 

ProviaFan

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<< SmartFTP
It's free, works through a sereis of different proxies/firewalls, has diferrent download queues. Multi-Thread download etc...
Just look into their feature page....
>>


What he said. I use SmartFTP and love it.
 

thornc

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Chooco: try running an ftp session with IE thourgh a proxy/firewall... if it's not a transparent will run into
big problems...besides no queues and other goodies...

IE is a browser it was made for browsing... not ftping, to each task it's tool!

And in Linux I do use gFTP...or the commandline with wget if I need too, even lynx is better than a full browser!
 

KeyserSose

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I recently set up an FTP with BulletProof FTP which so far has worked really good, also I have been using LeapFTP which a sweet little program, had some troubles at first becasue I was viewing the IP off my system and not off www.whatismyip.com which shows you the true IP your viewed as from the internet. I would like to find a way to kick the speeds of FTP up a notch so far on my cable modem the fastest download from FTP has been 15k.
 

Chooco

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dude i AM behind a proxy and i never have problems with IE, as for your saying of "supporting resume" and "automatically download at a certain time" i use Download Accelerator to do that. why would i install an FTP client to do the exact same thing?
 

Nothinman

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as for your saying of "supporting resume" and "automatically download at a certain time" i use Download Accelerator to do that. why would i install an FTP client to do the exact same thing?

Because resume is a feature supported by nearly every FTP server, it make sense that FTP clients should support it too.

Can you schedule an upload with Download Accelerator?
 

randomlinh

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IE has always been slow and bothersome for me. I had problems w/ it connecting to my warftp server for some reason. load up smartftp and it works nicely. Same w/ navigating the unix system at school (uploading projects and stuff).

Anyway, to each his own. I don't use Download Accelerator anyway.
 

thornc

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<< dude i AM behind a proxy and i never have problems with IE, as for your saying of "supporting resume" and "automatically download at a certain time" i use Download Accelerator to do that. why would i install an FTP client to do the exact same thing? >>



Good for you...
Download accelerator has spyware...
Your proxy is very good... my campus firewall doesn't allow anything to come in except well defined network traffic.
Ftp transfers here only with passive mode...

And IE wasn't made to ftping... they may want it to do that but it won't...

It's like using a screwdriver to make holes on the wall, You can do that but that isn't the correct tool to do the job....
 

Halmos

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I downloaded smartftp after the recommendations made here. I can log on to my unix account at school but I don't see my local hard drive, desktop etc. My question is how do I transfer file from my local HD to the unix account and vice versa? Can someone please help me?
 

thornc

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What you need is the local Browser there at least 3 ways to call it:
1) Press ctrl+L
2) Menu FTP->Local Browser
3) Press the Icon that looks like a computer on the toolbar, its 14th counting from the left and including the grayed ones!

easy....



 

Chooco

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download accelerator does NOT have spyware in it, i run a check every week and the only stuff it finds is cydor which is kazaa
 

Nothinman

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Either you're running an old enough version of DA that it doesn't have spyware or you havn't updated your Ad-Aware definitions recently, but it does indeed have spyware.
 

mrbass

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leechftp is the best IMHO. Multithreading, throttling, written in delphi..and I've used the same version for 2 or 3 years and it works perfect.