[Westwales] Site Setup

[Colin Sauze]

Matthew Bennett wrote:
> Robert Savage wrote:
>   
>> I have web space on UKFSN but am not sure how to get my publication onto
>> the site.  Connected to UKFSN as usual using kppp then brought up KBear
>> and entered the FTP address in its connect dialog, together with
>> username and pswd.  Second window in KBear showed  a folder with the
>> label 'Website'.  First time I did this I seemed able to open it but as
>> soon as I tried to copy my files KBear shutdown.  On Subsequent
>> attempts I got an error message about permission opening the folder.
>>     
It could be that you don't actually have permission to access that 
folder. Did kbear list any permissions (might be listed as 10 
characters, something like drwxr--r--)? Did it say what user owns the file?

>> Is KBear broken?  Am I doing it all wrong?  Should I give up and open a
>> bottle of wine?
>>     
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> It wouldn't suprise me. I'm a gnome user at the moment, so I tend to keep
> away from KDE apps.
>
> Might I suggest using firefox with FireFTP? It is very easy to use, but of
> course that depends on you being a firefox user... If so, it's available
> in the firefox repositories online at
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684
>
> If possible, however, it is recommended that you use something more secure
> than just FTP. I believe FTP sends passwords unencrypted over the internet
> - WinSCP is available for windows, and it works ok under the latest wine
> builds...

There's also SCP/SFTP on linux. Its normally invoked from the command line though. There's a reasonably good explanation at http://kb.iu.edu/data/agye.html.
There are probably some graphical clients but I don't know of any off the top of my head, konqueror might even support it directly these days but i'm not sure.


> If neither of those are suitable for you, I've found a good list at
> http://linuxreviews.org/software/ftp-clients/
>
> Hope that helps!
> Matt
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