FTP?

[Guest]

how do i set up an FTP with a remote computer over the internet? Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Bob Willard]

how do i set up an FTP with a remote computer over the internet? Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

FTP requires the cooperation of two computers. The computer with the
files must run a FTP server program, and the computer that wants to
remotely access those files must run a FTP client program. There is
no way for a FTP client (using only FTP) to remotely force some other
computer to run a FTP server program; you'll need access to that other
computer to do that.

FTP client programs are cheap or, in some cases, free. FTP server
programs tend to be more costly.

 

[willy nelson]

how do i set up an FTP with a remote computer over the internet? Any
help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Assuming you're not talking about running an FTP server yourself, you
simply need to get an FTP client and point it to an FTP server. Internet
Explorer can handle FTP but a dedicated FTP client is much faster in my
experience.

If the space on the server doesn't belong to you, you'll only be access it
in a read-only fashion. If you're talking about uploading stuff to your
personal webspace provided by your ISP, you'll need to point your FTP
client to your ISP's FTP server and log in using your account's login and
password.

For an excellent and free FTP client, take a look at Filezilla:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/