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FTP in Vista Ultimate How to I set up & use?

#1 User is offline   mmmartie 

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Posted 30 May 2009 - 12:16 PM

I just found out that FTP comes installed in Vista Ultimate. Someone needs to send me a large number of files through FTP. I need some help to set this up so I can tell the person how to send me the files.

I went into the control panel and turned the FTP, telnet, and TFTP features on. I also opened the FTP 21 & 22 ports in McAfee firewall. Now I have no idea what to do next. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Lisa

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Posted 30 May 2009 - 01:36 PM

Open My Computer and Right Click on an empty space.
Click Add a Network Location
You will get a new wizard to add a network location which allows you to create a shortcut to a website, an FTP site, or other network location.
Click Next and Click Choose a custom network location.
You will be asked to enter the location of the website. Note: when you give the location address for FTP use the following syntax, (FTP://ftp.yoursitename.com)

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Posted 30 May 2009 - 04:49 PM

Thanks for the suggestion. I had trouble with that though, my computer kept hanging with it. Tried several times. I ended up using FileZilla. Took me all day to get it working behind my router (very confusing), but it is finally working now.

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Posted 30 May 2009 - 05:45 PM

That's good. The second suggestion would have been a third-party program.

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