Keith
This is a good point to note. FTP by itself is not a secure protocol. It should be OK because it is generally used for point to point transfer.
There are variants such as SFTP (secure FTP) which may be more appropriate.
Both Transmit and Interarchy (my favourite) can do SFTP - I'm not sure with Fetch as it has been a while since I used it.
Proceed with caution is always a wise idea - you almost certainly will get Port Scanned if you are on broadband but you might get nastier things happening if you are not secured.
HTH
regards
Richard Earney
-- http://www.method-photo.co.uk
On 6 Jul 2004, at 10:46, Keith Cooper wrote:
One other thing I should add, is that if you do open up your own ftp server
to the world, make sure you have accounts properly set up. I have an FTP
image server (OSX) and test web server (OSX) open to the internet which
regularly get people trying to break in to them (with well known Windows
cracks :-) :-).
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