#MAC OS FTP CLIENT APPLICATION MANUAL#
At this location you will also find an excellent and very readable user’s manual for NetPresenz, which I would encourage you to at least browse before starting the application for the first time.Ī note of key importance highlighted by this manual is to make sure that File Sharing is on before you run NetPresenz. You can acquire a copy of NetPresenz 4.1 from. With NetPresenz and Fetch installed, you can both make your files available to others via FTP, and you can access files that others are making available to you, also via FTP.įirst things first, as always. NetPresenz is a wonderful freeware package that delivers an FTP Server, a Web Server AND a Gopher server (if you haven’t heard of Gopher before, you can think of it as an early predecessor to HTTP).
Sharing Files from a Macintosh to a PC via NetPresenz FTP Server However, what if you want to share files FROM your Mac via FTP? For that, you need a Macintosh FTP server, a job beyond the limited means of FTP client applications like Fetch and Transmit. Both are excellent and well known FTP clients, each providing a means for getting files TO your vintage Mac via FTP, from an FTP site. “NetPresenz?” you are thinking to yourself… What the heck is NetPresenz? Names like Fetch and Transmit pop unbidden into your mind when you think of vintage Macs and FTP, and this is not without reason. Today’s post attacks the networking problem from a totally different direction – the FTP protocol – using a much lesser known application, NetPresenz. Both of these use the SMB protocol to achieve networking. The first two posts in this series covered accomplishing this with two fairly well known tools for this purpose, Thursby Software’s Dave, and Connectix’s DoubleTalk.
#MAC OS FTP CLIENT APPLICATION HOW TO#
This is the third in our series concerning how to network your vintage Macintosh with its Windows peers of the day.
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