| Setting
up a client to FTP to your account on
NetRunner is easy. FTP for the
uninitiated is File Transfer Protocol.
Its purpose is to transfer files to and
from your computer to remote computers on
the Internet. Servers:
You
will need a Host Name or Remote Server
name. If you wished to connect to the
NetRunner computer, say to upload a
webpage, the address is:
ftp.netrunner.net
Server
Type:
You
can generally leave this as:
Automatic
Detect
Connecting:
There are two
types of FTP. Anonymous and User Login.
Anonymous is just that. You login as a
general Internet User and are given
certain areas in the remote computer that
you may prowl in.
To login
anonymously on nearly any computer, you
enter Anonymous as a username and your
email address as a password.
To logon as a User
Login, enter your NetRunner username and
your password that you use to login
regularly with. Remember that a User
Login will only work when you try to FTP
to NetRunner's machine.
Now its only a
matter of transferring the files:
Important
Tip:
Text files and
HTML pages should be transferred as
ASCII.
EXE and Zip files and Images like GIF and
JPEG should be transferred as Binary.
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