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Then drag them to the FTP folder, and select “Copy here.” You can select multiple files with Ctrl+ left click, or Shift + left click.

Have the other window open to the FTP directory you want to upload to. Use this window to select files from the local file system. In Konqueror, open a second window with Window -> Split View. It only lets you upload one file at a time. In Mozilla, navigate to the FTP directory you want to upload files to. Uploading files via browser is a bit trickier than downloading. Konqueror, unlike Mozilla, supports authenticated logins, so you can use it for FTP sites that require a login and password. Mozilla uses the odd phrasing “Save link target as…” Konqueror is a bit more sensible and says “Copy to…”

#Gftp windows download

To test directly on your ftp server, use “ftp://localhost.” Downloading files is simple: right-click on the file name, then click the download command. To get to an FTP server with a Web browser, type “” in the URL bar. Konqueror runs only on Linux, and requires the KDE desktop. The two browsers that get my vote as Best Browsers are Konqueror and Mozilla. Web BrowsersĪll Web browsers support anonymous ftp. And it is fully internationalized, supporting a host of languages which you can see for yourself at gFTP. GFTP has a couple of other noteworthy features: it supports SSH/SSL for secure authentication and transmission, and it supports FXP transfers, which are transfers between two remote hosts. If you set “View Program” to Konqueror or Mozilla, you’ll be able to preview all files from gFTP by righting-click on the file and selecting “Preview.”

Stuff all of your uploads into this directory so you don’t have to wander all over your local filesystem looking for them.įTP -> Options is the place to set all of your defaults: proxies, email address, overwrite and refresh defaults, charsets, and such.

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Go to FTP -> Options -> General, and on the Startup Directory line enter the full path, like /home/carla/dropbox-uploads. Select multiple files with Ctrl+ left-click or Shift + left-click.Īnother great shortcut is to set the default local directory. Highlight files with the mouse, then click the arrow. To transfer files, change to appropriate local and remote directories. To disconnect, hit the little two-computer icon again. Now here’s the convenient part- after connecting, make a bookmark with the Bookmarks menu: Bookmark -> Add Bookmark, and check the box to save the password. (If you don’t enter a password, it will use the email address as defined in FTP -> Options -> General.) Connect to the server by hitting the little two-computer icon to the left of the Host: box. For example,, anonymous, For an anonymous server you don’t need a password, but gFTP will ask for one, so give it an email address or any random string. … if you want users and customers to use FTP, making it as easy as possible works better than yelling and threats.Īnyone making a remote connection to your server must configure gFTP with the Host, Login, and Password. gFTP automatically selects port 21, so you don’t need to mess with this except when the server you’re connecting to uses a non-standard port.

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If it’s an anonymous server, leave them blank and click on “connect” when the popup login and password boxes appear. You can use it to login and test your local vsftpd server by entering “localhost” in the “Host:” box, then the login and password, if there are any. GFTP is one of the nicest, most fully-featured graphical Linux FTP clients.

#Gftp windows how to

This week we’ll look at how to configure FTP clients on Linux and Windows to make it as easy as possible for your users, so they will use FTP instead of crushing your mail server with huge email attachments, or faxing, or copying to eleventy-nine floppy disks. You can transfer files between your computer and our systems by selecting the files and using the appropriate arrow buttons.Last week we looked at setting up simple FTP dropboxes for secure-enough uploads and downloads, using file system permissions and simple vsftpd access controls to control who may use your server. On logging in, you will see your CS account files on the right pane. Then enter mote.cs. for host, and your username, click on the green Connect button on the left side of the toolbar. Change the transfer protocol from FTP to SSH (or SSH2) the control to do this is on the upper right side of the window next to the Stop button (the red circle with the white X in it). In the main gFTP window your local files will be visible in the left pane. (Ubuntu users may need to add the universe repository to their /etc/apt/sources.list first.

#Gftp windows install

Debian and Ubuntu users can do “sudo apt-get install gftp''. If you are using a Unix system running the X Window System, you can have a graphical front-end for SFTP and FTP transfers by using gFTP, available at or more easily as a package for your Linux distribution.