02-06-2008
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And you might want to try switching to sftp if that is available.
With it you can use either userid/passwords, or key files.
Use openssh for the unix end, and winscp for the windows end, both are open source.
What he said. scp / sftp would be way better than ftp if you can do it. Public keys make this sort of thing much easier.
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