What is Anonymous FTP?
Each domain has its own anonymous FTP directory that lets the other users or your guests upload and download files in your domain. Anonymous FTP users log in to ftp.yourcompany.com with user name anonymous and password as their e-mail addres. For security reasons, anonymous FTP directory is seperated from your main FTP directory. We regularly monitor anonymous FTP sites for illegal material.
“FTP” stands for File Transfer Protocol; on many systems, it’s also the name of a user-level program that implements that protocol. This program allows a user to transfer files to and from a remote network site, provided that network site is reachable via the Internet or a similar facility. (Ftp is also usable on many local-area networks.) “Anonymous FTP” indicates that a user may log into the remote system as user “anonymous” with an arbitrary password. A common convention is that the user’s email address is supplied as the password, e.g. “yourname@yoursite”. This is useful to those sites that track ftp usage. Also note that most sites restrict when transfers can be made, or at least suggest that large transfers be made only during non-peak hours.
Anonymous FTP servers can be accessed without having an account. Instead of a username, you will normally login under the username ftp or anonymous – all anonymous servers will accept one or both of these usernames. And instead of a password you should type your full e-mail address, eg mary.smith@kcl.ac.uk. Anonymous login names and passwords can be preset in WS_FTP and Fetch to save you typing them in every time.
