What is FTP Protocol? FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is, as its name indicates, a protocol for transferring files. The implementation of FTP dates from 1971, when a file transfer system (described in ...

Fig. 1: FileZilla is a popular free FTP client. Back in 2011, I wrote about setting up a Secure Shell (SSH) server. This supports secure file transfers and it’s easy to set up. Read “Let’s Build an ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

When one thinks of the Internet, the first thing that comes to mind is surfing from one Web site to another. Being able to go from Web site to anothe, and view the contents is indeed the reason that ...

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS. There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two ...

File Transfer Protocol is an older networking protocol for transferring files to network servers. Here's how to use it on your Mac. We previously covered the Terminal-based SCP protocol, which allows ...

HyperTerminal is a simple but powerful tool bundled with older versions of Windows for connecting to remote computers. One of its main features is the ability to transfer files between two computers ...

Microsoft Windows is usually a presence in most computing environments, and UNIX administrators likely will be forced to use resources in Windows networks from time to time. Although many are familiar ...

Research Computing has several nodes dedicated to GridFTP file transfer for moving large amounts of data. This protocol addresses deficiencies in secure copy requests: the necessity to monitor large ...