the best FTP client?
 

Hi all,

I spent some time looking for a nice FTP client, but at the end I'm still using gftp because the nicest one I could find was IglooFTP, but it is in fact shareware.

can you recommend me some clients that you like?

Thanks a lot :)

If I ever need to ftp then I find ftp quite good.

Yeap, for small things it's perfect, I use it a lot in windows. The thing is that for my job sometimes I need to work over web servers with a lot of folders and files and a graphical tool makes it incredibly easier and faster.

Do you have something against Midnight Commander? I think almost every distro has it?

I vote for gftp

filezilla.sf.net has been good to me.

My money's on lftp

Dave

I've played with several different GUI FTP clients, such as KBear, KFTPGrabber, Kasablanca, etc., but I always come back to gFTP. Among the command-line clients, I vote for lftp.

If you really have to use a graphical client, then I think that gFTP is probably the best of the lot. Seriously, though lftp is great on the command line.

On another note, you should probably supersede the ftp protocol with sftp. I don't know of many sftp graphical clients though - I just use SCP / SFTP on the command line.

Well, thanks for the sftp advice. I'm 100% agree with you but that would be a quite difficult migration: we are several workers working with those servers, some clients also log in, and I don't know if the server service (it's a windows server) supports sftp.

The main problem are the clients, because if we receive now a lot of calls of clients with problems with their ftp configuration, I really don't feel like helping them to migrate...

Anyhow is ftp very insecure? I mean, is it relatively easy or difficult to sniff in a ftp communication?

Sniffing FTP
 

FTP is terrible for security; I can't imagine anything worse. Just use ethereal or any other sniffer and you can see your password being sent in the clear, one packet per character, over the wire to everyone on your LAN, everyone at your ISP, the other party's ISP, and the LAN at their end. When I teach Net+ classes, homework 2 is reading passwords from FTP signons.

Any organization that uses FTP or SSH these days is just waiting for disaster. Block them at the firewall and use SFTP and SSH.

I have to agree with samb39 where possible but I think the line:
Any organization that uses FTP or SSH

Should read:
Any organization that uses FTP or telnet

Oops!
 

He is correct; SSH is secure. FTP and Telnet are the things to stop using ASAP.

Kbear would be quite good choice... if u need speed..... and decent set of addins