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 ...

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS. There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two ...

I'd like to run SFTP *and* FTP on a box. On non-system accounts. With the same login/password/home directories for both services. ssh should still run with the system accounts (I might have two ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

So I got a Synology Disk Station (model DS110j) since my wife wanted a server. I figured that the NAS was a good way to go, and Synology is well reviewed. One of the features of the diskstation is ...

The SFTP user experience is typically no different from what users are used to with FTP; the client program simply handles the SSH encryption for you. Places to start looking at SFTP client software ...

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 ...

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

There’s occasionally the need to send files server-side without wanted or needing to access a full FTP client. OneWay for Mac OS X is a contextual uploader, allowing users to simply right click and ...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. Here’s a small piece of news you may have missed while you were trying to ...

Reader Gregg Andrews has an iOS device here and files there and wonders how to bring the two together. He writes: My company keeps a lot of work files on an FTP server. When I travel I’d like to take ...

Spread the loveWhen you’re trying to move files around on the internet, especially between your local machine and a web ...