There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

What is FTP Protocol? FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is, as its name indicates, a protocol for transferring files. The implementation of FTP dates from 1971, when a file transfer system (described in ...

Running a public FTP site securely can be difficult. Taking full advantage of the security features supported by your FTP server application of choice can be a chore, and even then there's a good ...

File Transfer Protocol is an older networking protocol for transferring files to network servers. Here's how to use it on your Mac. We previously covered the Terminal-based SCP protocol, which allows ...

right now I am using lynx to view the net. I want to learn some<BR>more command line proggies to use when I get my 486 laptop. what<BR>are the irc and ftp command line programs? any others i should ...

In my never ending quest to always learn more about linux (e.g. I would like to know the answer to this) is there a way to download multiple file from a single directory. I'm talking on the order of ...