On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:18:49 +0000, Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Can you point me a source of information on getting and setting up an FTP site?
At present I haven't set up one either. Probably when Phoebus gets back on the list he will have the know how and information.
I have two net accounts, one with Demon and one with AOL.
The Demon account has everything, I just haven't investigated it for FTP.
The AOL account gives an easy to use access to storing files via FTP as a part of the package.
Perhaps Rich will know more about this too, as he may have a fuller AOL account than mine.
I don't think that AOL provides a free FTP upload and download area for non-members.
Ah yes, that is the catch. It is a 'members' only service. Although 'non-members' ought to be able to download only? Through anonymous FTP.
I have just been using it again for the first time in a long time, and there is 20Mb of space per user name. With up to 7 user names. More space than I had realised. The user interface has also been improved with everything being done via icons.
I don't use their service anymore except for internet access and some email - their servers (in common with most free space providers) were too unreliable and too slow.
Odd. I use for web browse searches, and all my downloads as it easy and quick.
I have plenty of space for FTP files on my servers but the problem is how do you provide a simple way of navigating to the right file and finding it?
Well it just set up like a hard drive, directories with the name of the contents.
You could have a 'QWord Update' directory, for example, and users just navigate to it, and then download.
You would have to look at the help file for your webspace provider in order to find out how to enable anonymous FTP - I can do this on my rwapservices.co.uk server through the control panel for the website. Anyone can then connect to my server using a username of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and their email address as the password.
It is not difficult to do on a paid web server.
Yes it is convenient.
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