FTP client upgrades...

[John]

I hope this makes it to a MS person who relays it to the
product improvement department...

I'm a network administrator so it's understandable that I
would be using FTP on almost a daily basis. We have a
hybrid network of a Win2k AD domain, and three linux
servers for web, email, and proxy/firewall. Since our
latest upgrade to the linux kernels we lost the ability
to use the FTP client built into any Windows version.
This is solely because MS FTP does not support passive
mode. I have use the command line FTP for years and it's
hard for me to use a GUI program. My first question is,
does anyone know of a like replacement for the command
line FTP of Windows? And my second question is, does
anyone know why they are not supporting passive mode,
since a large number of Inet servers use passive mode?

Thanks
John

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

Two alternatives that I know of:

1. Microsoft Services for Unix (free:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/ )

The client included here includes a much more capable ftp program.

2. Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.org) which uses the gnu FTP client...

Otherwise, you will need to use a GUI client...

Jeffrey Randow (Windows Net. & Smart Display MVP)
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