Comments on: Adventures in FTP

By: Mark Mosher

Mark Mosher — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:15:44 +0000

Nice article Heather. Another utility that I like is box.net. Has a nice feature where you can access your files via iPhone and Blacbkerry.

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By: Patrick Bryant

Patrick Bryant — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:57:15 +0000

I’ve been using dropbox for quite awhile and I really like it. I’ve used it on Linux and windows, and my one word of caution is, if you need platform mobility, make sure you don’t name files using characters that will be illegal on a target platform. EG, if your files will have to live on a Win box at some point, don’t use a “:” in a file name or they simply won’t show up.

What I really like about Dropbox is, the protocol (ftp, sftp, nfs, smb, etc.) is kept under the hood. You just have a Dropbox folder and put stuff in it. DB takes care of syncing it in the background, and then you can access the files from anywhere.

-pb

By: Joe Griffin

Joe Griffin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:12:53 +0000

Thanks for the info, Heather. I’ve been struggling with this problem myself (mainly using Fetch but eh…), and I think I’m gonna give Dropbox a try.

By: James Lewis

James Lewis — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:50:12 +0000

Hi there, I found your insite into flaky FTP quite interesting as a company that specialises in enterprise file transfer solutions. We come across this a lot and whilst our solutions are more geared up to enterprise wide deployment there are plenty of hosted solutions that your reader could also check out including box.net, humyo.com and another good one is livedrive.com – hope this is of interest. Cheers James