FTP in OSX

[Craigy]

Hi Sometimes I need to FTP from a Mac with no FTP software installed. I am used to doing this through IE on winodes and tried doing the same with Safari.

Logged in and it mounted the FTP drive in the finder - browsed and download fine. When I try to drag a file and write I get the "ftp.xxxxx.xx cannot be modified" error. Same log in as IE / Dreamwaver etc with no problems. Any ideas?

[JFreak]

try transmit by www.panic.com

[garybUK]

or in a terminal type : fetch ftp://username:password@ftp.my.ftpsite.com /Users/username/Desktop

or use Cyberduck... very good ftp program.

[wrldwzrd89]

or in a terminal type : fetch ftp://username:password@ftp.my.ftpsite.com /Users/username/Desktop

or use Cyberduck... very good ftp program.
You can also use the command-line FTP program in the Terminal...that's what I use for FTP write access. In a Terminal window, type "man ftp" (without the quotes) to learn more about the ftp command.

[debo]

I agree. Use Transmit. Much better than cyberduck.

[MisterMe]

Hi Sometimes I need to FTP from a Mac with no FTP software installed. I am used to doing this through IE on winodes and tried doing the same with Safari.

Logged in and it mounted the FTP drive in the finder - browsed and download fine. When I try to drag a file and write I get the "ftp.xxxxx.xx cannot be modified" error. Same log in as IE / Dreamwaver etc with no problems. Any ideas?It is a well-known fact that the Finder's FTP Desktop mounting feature does not allow uploading. You can, however, use Interarchy, Fetch, NetFinder, or any of the FTP clients mentioned above by others.

[dvdh]

I recommend Fetch. It nice and simple and works well. BTW, if you happen to be in education or Not-For-Profit, you can qualify to download it for free if I recall correctly. (Otherwise the $25 USD is not bad either if it something you are going to use alot)

[debo]

Interarchy is great too, I forgot about it. But it cost money.

[osprey76]

ftp://username:password@ftp.my.ftpsite.com /Users/username/Desktop

Kudos to the forum for its smiley parsing. Nothing like a laughing assword.

I've used Fetch and Transmit. Both were easy to use for me and I rarely ftp to things.

[jeremy.king]

What? No RBrowserLite (http://www.rbrowser.com/RBrowserLite/RBrowserLite.html) fans? It is entirely free.

[Toeknee]

What? No RBrowserLite (http://www.rbrowser.com/RBrowserLite/RBrowserLite.html) fans? It is entirely free.

Big fan been using it for a long while now!! :)

[musicpyrite]

OS X already has an FTP client: Terminal

Really, it's not that hard using the Terminal... :rolleyes:

[jeremy.king]

OS X already has an FTP client: Terminal

Really, it's not that hard using the Terminal... :rolleyes:

Funny, not sure how you can get a directory and all the files/directories inside it without a shell script :rolleyes: . The GUIed clients are just easier to use.

[Crikey]

For grabbing folders full of files over a secure connection, check out "man scp".

Cheers,


Michael

[wrldwzrd89]

Funny, not sure how you can get a directory and all the files/directories inside it without a shell script :rolleyes: . The GUIed clients are just easier to use.
After starting the ftp command, type help at the ftp prompt to get a list of commands supported by the ftp command. Surely one of those will give you what you want.

[jeremy.king]

The point was that musicpyrites response was implying that the command line ftp program is all you need, I simply pointed out a known limitation. SCP is nice, but has nothing to do with FTP on a non-secure connection. mget is the closet you will get, but it will not traverse directories, it will only get all the files in a directory.

[FuzzyBallz]

Fetch... feels like using WS_FTP LE on PC.

[kgarner]

I found an Applescript that will ftp a file (or possibly a folder of files) to a particular site. I will see if I can find it again. I haven't had much chance to play with it, but it sounds pretty nice if you need to upload to the same place a lot. Just drag and drop. Then you can use Finder to view the ftp site and download. If you use a lot of ftp stuff though, I reccomend Transmit. Very nice program.