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Windows FTP

FTP Clients

Firefox Browser Add-On

If you use Firefox and your FTP client needs are simple, we like the FireFTP add-an for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireftp/

You may also want the button to more easily start FireFTP:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireftp-button/

Standalone

FileZilla is a great FTP client…easy and free:

https://filezilla-project.org/

Simple FTP Server

The built-in FTP service for Windows is part of the IIS web server and is quite complicated to set up and get working for many applications.

For a simple web server service, just use FileZilla FTP Server:

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=server

Setup is a breeze for a simple application:

https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/FileZilla_FTP_Server

http://www.howtogeek.com/140352/how-to-host-an-ftp-server-on-windows-with-filezilla/

networking/windows/windows_ftp.1455209427.txt.gz · Last modified: 2016/02/11 09:50 by gcooper