Chapter 20. FTP: Transferring Files Across a Network

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FTP Client

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JumpStart I: Downloading Files Using ftp

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Anonymous FTP

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Automatic Login

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Binary Versus ASCII Transfer Mode

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FTP Server (vsftpd)

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JumpStart II: Starting a vsftpd Server

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vsftpd.conf: The vsftpd Configuration File

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File Transfer Protocol is a method of downloading files from and uploading files to another system using TCP/IP over a network. File Transfer Protocol is the name of a client/server protocol (FTP) and a client utility (ftp) that invokes the protocol. In addition to the original ftp utility, there are many textual and graphical FTP client programs, including most browsers, that run under many different operating ...

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