BS: Free FTP Software Advice

Subject: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: GUEST,Bat Goddess at work
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 02:59 PM

There seem to be a lot of free FTP programs available for Windows, which is what I'm using at work. (At home I'm Mac all the way, so I'm a little out of the loop on Windows apps.)

I'll be using it to FTP PDF files to our printer's FTP site. Nothing fancy, just getting them there in a timely fashion with the least amount of fuss.

Any suggestions or caveats?

I'm just twitchy (being on a PC) about downloading programs that might have nasty things attached or in their innards.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 04:31 PM

Lynn...the best I have found is Filezilla, which is one of the free, open source projects listed at SourceForge.

There are several others which are just fine, but I tried 3-4 others before settling on this one.

here is the list of Pricelessware...best free programs vothed on by the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup..

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 04:34 PM

(these are carefully chosen sites and programs....no spyware or problems when downloaded from the sources noted)

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: Amos
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 06:49 PM

There are lots of FTP apps for Macs too. Currently, I favor "Transmit".

A

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 09 Mar 05 - 07:05 PM

Im a printer and whenever my customers upload to our ftp site
I recomend filezilla (its very straightfoward to use)
i think transmit is the one we use for macs, (or fetch)
cheers
Petr

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 08:01 AM

Thanks for all the info!

Just discovered, actually, that I can copy the PDFs for print directly to the FTP site without any other software.

Any advantages to using, say Filezilla, instead of just doing it directly?

Thanks again.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: mooman
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 08:26 AM

I have a Mac and find "Captain FTP" excellent for the website work I do (not sure if it's free but if not it's certainly inexpensive shareware).

Peace

Richard (still hoping to get to Boston and environs)

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: s6k
Date: 10 Mar 05 - 08:37 AM

the best FTP program is SmartFTP (google it) its free, and the most popular and best one. plus it is from their website, not a download site with loads of programs on, that may have nasties in them

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: GUEST,2clos
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 09:23 AM

Have you tried Fresh FTP? It has a clean interface.

2clos

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 03:48 PM

I used FTP commander for a while. I use Dreamweaver. The only caveat is the time-out. It was not a problem originally but Dreamweaver will time-out before my new set-up has confirmed and it refuses to re-connect. As I remember with FTP commander it was not a problem.

My solution is to invoke a connection from the browser and when the page comes-up - hit Dreamweaver.

Subject: RE: BS: Free FTP Software Advice
From: Amos
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 03:57 PM

For OS X usen I recommend Transit -- simple and effective.


A