On Aug 2, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
On Aug 2, 2004, at 07:46 pm, aawillems wrote:
FTP works great for our outside clients.
I have it running on my server as a backup incase AFP and SMB stop working. Highly unlikely but you never know. I also use it from outside.
FTP is an insecure means of file sharing. Passwords and usernames are sent in cleartext to and from the server. In addition, the files themselves are sent so that anyone 'listening in' on the session can copy the information.
Using scp (via SSH) is far, far better, and graphical clients like Fugu for the Mac and WinSCP <http://winscp.sourceforge.net/> make it as easy as using any FTP client.
WebDAV, <http://www.webdav.org/> when run over a secure web server is another good option. (WebDAV is the technology behind mountable .Mac disks)
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