

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. 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.
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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.

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.
