What FTP options are available?
Dedicated ftp applications such as AbsoluteFTP, WS-ftp, and Fetch are recommended, but there shouldn’t be a problem with most other standard ftp methods. Shell users should be able to ftp from the command line or even tunnel an ftp session through ssh. If you do experience trouble, though, try one of the more traditional ftp applications mentioned above first to make sure the problem is not something else.
