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Anyone have used those for awhile and like one better than the other?
I really only use fireFTP, just because it is within my browser and has less windows open, and for some reason filezilla didn't work w/ my one of my websites' servers in version 2.
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I am not fond of any app within my browser. (IE if I wanna ftp i first need to open a browser?)
Fire FTP i haven't used but I tried quite a few open source FTP apps before settling with FileZilla. Why one of your servers didn't work with FZ is a mystery to me.
at the same time, so I would have the browser up anyways to see how it looked. I hand code everything, so it's not wyswyg, except in my minds eye.
It was less switching, to me at least, and only one program using up my toolbar space.
Filezilla folks couldn't help me out either, and I had the exact same settings in FZ, fireftp, coreftp, and ws_ftp. It was only FZ that wouldn't let me connect to my dolphins-cove upload server.
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How the heck do you create a server so you can FTP stuff between computers. Other than my xbox, i have no reason to FTP. I have no idea how to create a username and password to FTP between my computers. Can anyone help? Oh, and FileZilla i have found to be the fastest. Better than the extension, and better than smartFTP
I am using the app Bulletproof FTP Server on my stick, works ok
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
would be also usefull
did anybody do it portable?
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Filezilla Server isn't portable, it needs to be run as a service.
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
as far as to my logic, all such servers have to run as some kind of service on todays operating systems.
I got that bullet from somewhere, can not recall where I took it from. I made so far no big test with regshot, I am just curious how that thing works, it acts as ftp server, gives answer and communication can be done. Clearly, this will work probably only on admin acc, here I was testing is only on my old laptop with w2k. But it did work somehow.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
I have no clue when it comes to ftp servers except that you can talk to other computers and use them if connected to the same network.
how does FZ or similar email based apps work?
do the two comps need to be on the net at the same time to be of any use?
does the other person need to have FZ for it to work?
so many questions i have
where is the best site to go to to get info on this?
any help here and a refer would be appreciated.
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For more info on Filezilla, I recommend going to the Wikipedia page or directly to Filezillas main page.
I don't know how Filezilla works but I know that it isn't email based and its a FTP-Client. There is a server too but most people only need the cilent to connect to various ftp servers. Firefox can connect to ftp-servers too but Firefox only lets you download stuff while Filezilla lets yo upload things as well (if you have permission).
Hope that helps a bit.
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I personally only have an SSH server installed on my server (no FTP) on WinSCP is a nice alternative to securely download files from a single service.
For FTP connections, I use FireFTP as it is complete enough for me and I always have Mozilla Firefox browser opened.
As much as I hate to say it my CuteFTP 8 Pro is more user-friendly than FileZilla... I have both but I stick with Cute when I'm on my PC.
I only used an ftp like 3 times and they were cuteftp
and what is it, Ws_ftp ?.
Got them working.
I just used FileZilla, it took me the time to install
start the APP, and I was downloading from my friend 1.7 GB
of some Game Maps, that took Maybe a little over an hour ?.
It was easy for me.
Passworded and all that.
>and what is it, Ws_ftp ?.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Are you sure ws_ftp is portable and doesn't leave anything behind?
Filezilla stores credentials unencrypted in sitemanager.xml, and the developers have backed themselves into a corner by arguing that "since FTP is insecure, why protect passwords?". Dangerous, and because of this I'm dumping FileZilla for all my clients. Never mind that you can tunnel FTP securely over SSH or use SFTP.
WinSCP supports serious encryption of stored passwords, with a master password being required to work with stored passwords.
Don't know about FireFTP, but if it uses Firefox's password manager it might be OK AFA password security -- IFF you use a good master pwd with FF.