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Introduction In current times if you want to transfer a file to a friend, you can just attach it in an email and send it off. With high speed bandwidth being so cheap and plentiful to the home user, transferring a file in this manner is usually more than adequate. What if you needed to transfer the file to someone immediately; there could be no delays, it has to be fast, and the files you are transferring may be very large. In a scenario like this, email will most likely not be adequate. This is because most email providers limit the size of your mailbox on their servers, the size of attachments you may receive, and that there is no guarantee when you send email how long it will take for the recipient to receive it or if it will even get there. This is where FTP comes in. What is FTP FTP stands for the File transfer protocol and is used to transfer files between an FTP server and another computer. In the past, FTP was much more common than it is today and was the dominant file transfer...

Anonymous FTP as the name suggests, allows a user to hide its identity to the server and access the files. Although the files which can be accessed should not be privately protected by the users. In other words, only the files that are publicly available can be transferred to the client system. Anonymous FTP is used in much the same way other variants of FTP work but Anonymous FTP allows a user to access a remote directory without any username or password. In order to get in the remote server directory, all you have to do is enter the word anonymous in the username and password can be anything, as it doesn’t check for the password. Most of the time, Anonymous FTP doesn’t even ask for username and password. Now the real question is: Why is an FTP protocol that is unsecured? The answer would be: Anonymous FTP allows us to publicly download a file from a server. So let us say that a person is required to download a file from a server that doesn’t necessarily needs protection, then we can ...

Introduction SSH is an acronym for Secure Shell . Secure Shell is a network protocol which basically means a set of rules and guidelines that tells your computer how to send information from one place to another. SSH as the name implies is Secured. Basically when you are sending data over something like FTP, you are sending it entirely without encryption, so if you type your private information at one end and look to send it to another place, it might become visible for someone in the middle and private information may not remain secure for long. Using SSH in situation like this makes the chances of your information getting lost much less. What is SSH? SSH(like FTP) can be used for transmitting data, commands from one place to another and for transmitting files. It can be used on a variety of computers and on various platforms. The most visible application of the protocol is for access to shell accounts on Unix like operating systems but it sees some limited use on windows as well. The...