On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 18:31 +0100, Lee Tambiah wrote: > Strange I find Gftp to be reliable, I have no major issues with it. It > can keel over if lots of data is pushed at once, but I usually find > this with many ftp clients. You can try FileZilla but I think it's > currently in beta (although it seems to work well). > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558&package_id=206762 > > You will need to compile from source, I installed it once but > preferred Gftp. > > Regards > > Lee > > On 4/18/07, TheVeech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:31 +0100, norman wrote: > > I have been trying to use gFTP with no success. It seems > very prone to > > crashing. Could some kind person suggest any other software > that I > > should use. > > Look at that! > > Yes, gFTP is a nightmare unless you're only shifting minimal > amounts of > data (unless they've fixed it since I last looked). > > Nautilus is okay. I've heard good things about FileZilla, and > there's > extensions available for Firefox. > > HTH.
I've had a similar debate over at the forums. I've yet to come across an FTP app as unreliable as it, though. Some people like gFTP, others don't. Amazingly, some people claim they don't get problems with shifting a lot of data. Can't see it myself. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/