How do you use an FTP client?

[jacatone]

I've never been able to figure out how to use an FTP client. There are a number of files I'd like to access but don't understand what to do with NFO like the following: IP: 134.114.y.xxx Port: 81
Path: /

ftp://WOW:ALMOST@134.114.y.xxx:81 /

Could someone recommend an easy to use client and how I would use this NFO within it? Thanks.

[Statica]

There are a number of free and commercial FTP programs out there, WS_FTP Pro is a good free one (for personal use) and is available from http://www.ipswitch.com/products/WS_FTP/index.html
You can check out more FTP programs from - http://www.tucows.com/ftp95_default.html

Be it any program that you finally decide to use you can get an idea of the connection from the URL that you get:

ftp:// identifies it as an FTP protocol
* the IP address is the address you have to connect to, it is also known as the hostname or host address
the port is the port number that the server is allowing connections to, if no port is given it is assumed to be 21 the default. A number of programs including WS_FTP will have this in the Advanced session
The username or UserID is WOW
The password is ALMOST

Try out a program and read the HELP file, it should be pretty self-explanatory & real basic.

[Harry]

The latest version of wsftp (is it 7.6) is really great. It will feed all the information in when you click on ftp link sites. Before you had to find the place inside some options to put the proper numbers in. Now if you need to do it manually, you would just click on the top right button after the address and it will just open up a window template for you to put in that info.

There are literally thousands of open FTP sites. And there are ftp search engines that will find open ftp sites. Long before limelight, shareaza, kazaa and napster, the knowitalls were using ftp sites. Then when the music industry went bizerk about Napster, the knowitalls couldn't understand what all the fuss was about since they had traded songs that way for many years. The oldtimers I spoke to who don't even use computers couldn't understand what all the fuss was about since they had taped songs off the radio since the 60s and nobody ever said anything or ever said it was illegal for them to do so. I guess the music industry thought that tape quality wasn't worth going to court over. But the point was that in the old days almost everyone who had some kind of tape recorder or boom box taped songs off the radio and nobody ever said it was illegal to do so. Perhaps singers and songwriters were all making enough money then that they didn't need to complain.