FTP in OSX

RobH

RobH

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I'm using OSX on my MacBook and did "connect to server" under the "Go" menu in Finder. The FTP server is just my Xbox Media Center that I want to copy some files over to. I entered the address of my FTP server and entered the username and password, it logs in fine and appears as a drive in Finder.

However I can't copy files to any directory on the FTP server because it says the directory on the server cannot be modified. I inspected the properties using "Get Info" and found that the permissions are set to "read-only". Can anyone tell me how I change the permissions to allow writing? It's probably very simple, I can normally figure things like this out but being new to OSX I can't seem to find out how to do this.

Thanks.
 
What's the file system on the Xbox? Is it NTFS? If it is you're SOL as MS is rather tight-lipped about how to implement an NTFS driver so the boys who dev OS X have not included any write support for that proprietary file system.

EDIT: There are hacks to get around it, i.e installing some reverse-engineered open-souirce drivers, but I'm not sure if you should bother.
 
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BillytheImpaler said:
What's the file system on the Xbox? Is it NTFS? If it is you're SOL as MS is rather tight-lipped about how to implement an NTFS driver so the boys who dev OS X have not included any write support for that proprietary file system.

EDIT: There are hacks to get around it, i.e installing some reverse-engineered open-souirce drivers, but I'm not sure if you should bother.
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Wtf? What filesystem you use has absolutely no bearing on whether you can write to an ftp server or not - you're sending binary down a network. Nowt to do with how the data is stored on disk.

The issue will be with the ftp server not letting whatever user you are have write access to it's local disk. You need to look at the permissioning on that.
 
Remote FTP servers are read only in Finder I'm afraid, you'll have to use a seperate FTP client like Transmit.

(or just use the CLI FTP client, which is what I do but I'm lazy)
 
I use Fetch for the exact same purpose, it works perfectly, you do need to go into the preferance first time and set upload default as "binary raw"
 
So there's no drag a drop style FTP like there is built into Windows when you visit the server in explorer/IE. Considering they let you read in this way you'd have though they would implement writing too, maybe something for 10.5 I hope.

I guess I'll have to use a 3rd party client then, All I wanted to be able to do was drop a file onto my Xbox from Finder and not have to go installing anything extra to do a simple thing like that. It was one of those features I'd assume existed without actually having any knowledge of it.

PS: Xbox use the XBFS (Microsoft Format) file system which has nothing to do with FTP. If I was plugging the hard drive into my computer then it would matter.
 
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