ITworld.com – Often referred to as a “chroot jail” or a “padded cell” because users cannot escape from the directories into which they are put when they log in, the basic concept of a “chroot” (change ...

FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably using scp, ...

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...

why is FTP so SOOOO much faster? Its easily 3x faster on my home network to copy via FTP. I know there is less overhead but is it that much less? Is there any way to improve windows file copy speeds ...

This memo is the official specification of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Distribution of this memo is unlimited. The following new optional commands are included in this edition of the ...

There are numerous ways to transfer files these days, the oldest and still very widely used method is FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and was defined as early as 1971 in the very early days ...

Hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, and file transfer protocol, known as FTP, are two methods that allow you to upload or download files and pages from the Internet. The two have overlapping ...

Until now, we have taken a look at how to set up an FTP Server and how to configure it to be accessed from an external network via the Internet. But to make the most out of it, reading and writing ...

Anyone know if the FTP protocol spec has a threshold for file name lengths? I have a few OS X based FTP clients who will be transfersing files with 50+ chars in their file names via FTP to each other.

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...