FTP in OSX

[RobH]

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.

 

[RobH]

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.