FTP on the MacBook

[hayden21]

I just recently purchased a mac and I am very new to this. I am having issues try to connect to an ftp server where my website is located. On my Windows machine I used Firefox with FireFTP and it worked fine, however using the same set up on my MacBook it won't connect.

I have also used Safari and typed ftp://username.password@domain.com to try and work it through that way but it keeps giving me an unexpected error and won't connect. How do I fix this????

Thanks for the help!

[Eidorian]

I recommend Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/) or Fugu (http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/files/Fugu-1.2.0-Universal-English.dmg) as your FTP client for OS X.

Cyberduck hasn't given me any hiccups and I use it since elsewhere I only have one license for my pay FTP client Fetch.

[killmoms]

Firstly, the proper syntax is:

ftp://user:password@domain.com

I'd recommend a proper FTP client though, like Cyberduck (free) or Transmit (pay, but definitely worth it).

[eman]

With windows I would just use Firefox and ftp into my web page; then a GUI box would pop and I would type in my username and password and I'm in. I assume you can do this also with Safari, but i haven't tried it.