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STeve, Grrrrrr You, and Dennis Boone, and I, must talk. This is all about what is client side, what is server side, and what makes sense given a certain amount of bandwidth. Circa 1993. :-) Seriously. Lumch. On me. Somewhere with Wi-Fi. /rich On 8/21/06, STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hmmm. I suspect some might consider me a Net Neanderthal for saying > this, but I fail to see the reason for wanting graphical thumbnails. I > mean, > graphical stuff is only one kind of data, and showing a thumbnail > implies that the images have to be sent over to the ftp client to be > rendered, hardly an efficient thing to do. > > I'll go crawl under my command line shell now... > > --STeve Andre' > Political Science > > On Monday 21 August 2006 20:11, Richard Wiggins wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for suggesting Filezilla. I've tried it and it seems > > very nice. It's fast and the interface is intuitive. > > > > One feature I'd like to see is the ability to see thumbnails of remote > > files when they are images. Sometimes it seems like we are living in the > > world of the Jetsons, but sometimes it still seems to be Flintstones... > > > > Thanks again, > > > > /rich > > > > On 8/14/06, Peter Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > FileZilla is the only FTP client I bother using if I'm on a Windows > > > machine. Easy to use, light weight, and free. A perfect combination. > > > It also can use XML for connection information so it makes > > > exportation/importation of your ftp site info as easy as copying files > > > between folders if you need to reinstall FileZilla or install it on > > > multiple machines. > > > > > > When you go to download it, be careful because there's a FileZilla ftp > > > server and a FileZilla ftp client, I've accidently downloaded the > wrong > > > one more than once. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > *From:* MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > *On > > > Behalf Of *Harper, Chris > > > *Sent:* Monday, August 14, 2006 12:29 AM > > > > > > *To:* [log in to unmask] > > > *Subject:* Re: [MSUNAG] Graphical Windows FTP client? > > > > > > > > > > > > Found out about Filezilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/) when AIS > > > changed AISFTP access and got rid of the secure id's and went to SFTP. > > > When they did this they promoted Filezilla as a free SFTP connectivity > > > tool, can't say that I have any complaints at this point… my primary > FTP > > > app for years has always been FTP Voyager though. Not free however. > > > > > > > > > > > > *Chris Harper* > > > INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST > > > > > > University Relations / Michigan State University > > > > > > 1330 S. Harrison Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823-5200 > > > > > > *Email: *[log in to unmask] / *Office:* 517.355.6611 x 103 > > > *Web:* http://ur.msu.edu / *Cell:* 616.291.1987 > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > *From:* MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > *On > > > Behalf Of *Richard Wiggins > > > *Sent:* Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:10 PM > > > *To:* [log in to unmask] > > > *Subject:* [MSUNAG] Graphical Windows FTP client? > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, I know, an odd question for 2006.... > > > > > > > > > > > > Internet Explorer had a nice FTP client that provided moves to/from > local > > > disk to remote FTP site using icons as if local. It appears that > > > Microsoft has broken this in IE 7. I've been unable to get it to log > > > into servers, and there's talk on the Net that the function is broken. > > > > > > > > > > > > So I'm looking for an alternative. WS-FTP LE is no longer available. > > > Firefox has an add-in called FireFTP that's pretty good but has > > > shortcomings. > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a free graphical Windows FTP client you suggest? > > > > > > > > > > > > /rich > -- Rich Wiggins [log in to unmask]