Comments | barakta: Quick question for the geeks.

barakta

Quick question for the geeks.

Aug 25, 2007 17:43

What's a good graphical FTP client for Ubuntu?

Comments 22

memevector August 25 2007, 16:59:35 UTC

disclaimer: not sure if I qualify as a geek in this context :-)

(as you know I only went over to Linux relatively recently)

but anyway I'm using gFTP 2.0.18 and it seems OK so far...

barakta August 25 2007, 17:01:45 UTC

I'll look into that - thats very much. I don't want anything too hardcore geeky as I'm not really a geek - I just speak the language.

I only started using Ubuntu full-time last year. I still occasionally log back into windows when I need to because I haven't found decent me-friendly ubuntu equivalents.

reddragdiva August 25 2007, 22:17:10 UTC

Yuh. gFTP is included in Ubuntu and easily added to Kubuntu.

x_mass August 25 2007, 18:45:58 UTC

ok so whats a good one for windoze?

barakta August 25 2007, 19:12:32 UTC

I used to use WS_FTP which I think was 'freeware' for people in full time education and $40 shareware for everyone else. However I haven't used windows for years and the only website work I've done has been to one we host ourselves so I used SMB rather than FTP to fiddle with it. Looking at Tucows there are over 400 freeware FTP clients for windows. I guess it's a case of downloading some and seeing which suck the least.

memevector August 26 2007, 12:58:49 UTC

think there's some kind of a FireFox plugin...? haven't used it but someone mentioned it to me recently.

might be same thing as what lovingboth is talking about below...?

FTP bondagewoodelf August 25 2007, 21:14:41 UTC

who is it for? I myself really prefer the command-line lftp.

Re: FTP barakta August 25 2007, 22:03:17 UTC

Me. I found gFTP which serves the purpose. We also have various command line clients on the server which I might play with when I re-remember how FTP works :).

kimble August 26 2007, 00:09:19 UTC

For completeness, it's probably worth mentioning that Nuatilus can do ftp. In Ubuntu, just use "connect to server" in the Places menu.

Can't say I'm a fan of Nautilus in general though, but I tend to use the command-line for such things.

barakta August 26 2007, 00:10:32 UTC

The only time I've ever used Nautilus it crashed on me...

I got gFTP to install with synaptic and it's fine for the job.

It's weird doing web stuff on someone else's server though!

kimble August 26 2007, 00:15:42 UTC

The only time I've ever used Nautilus it crashed on me...

Yes, one of the reasons I can't say I'm a fan.

That, and the whole confusing the user into thinking they've mounted network locations on their local filesystem, with *hilarious* results when non-gnome apps can't see the file they just double-clicked on.

barakta August 26 2007, 00:17:15 UTC

Yes *sporks*

lovingboth August 26 2007, 07:08:38 UTC

Personally, I use FileZilla. Versions available for Linux, Windows and probably Mac.