AD408 Advanced
FTP File Transfers
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Establishes a connection between two networked computers
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Your machine is known as the client machine
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The machine you connect to is known as the server machine
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Most Windows/Mac/Unix/Linux computers can make a connection
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You can connect to most Unix/Linux computers and you cannot connect to most Windows/Mac computers
Connecting
on Unix/Linux/Windows type:
ftp address
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where address is the name of the computer you want to connect to
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on windows go to start->run and type in the command
Listing Files
type:
ls
Changing directories on the Server Machine
type:
cd directory
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where directory is the name of the directory you want to change to
Changing directories on the Client Machine
type:
lcd directory
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where directory is the name of the directory you want to change to
Putting files to the Server Machine
type:
put file
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where file is the name of the file you want to transfer
Getting files from the Server Machine
type:
get file
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where file is the name of the file you want to transfer
Putting files to the Server Machine
type:
put file
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where file is the name of the file you want to transfer