As techs, most of us have FTP servers or even websites we need to access quite often. So we may use well known FTP client applications such as FileZilla, WinSCP or TotalCommander.
In this post I'm going to tell about an FTP client that can give us permanent access to our FTP server, just as we can access our local hard drive. And most important: We don't have to download or install anything.
Yes, most of you already guessed, I'm talking about the Windows Explorer (or File Explorer, in Windows 8).
Just open the Windows explorer, type the address of your FTP server in the address bar and hit
Enter.
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The first time you do this, you will be presented with a dialog box asking for your user name and password. Enter your credentials, and for permanent access, don't forget to check "Save password". Press "Log On".
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After successful log on, you have already configured the permanent access to your FTP server. To make things even easier, you can create a desktop shortcut pointing to any directory in your FTP server. Just browse to the desired directory and drag the address bar icon to your desktop.
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And that's all. You can now use the Windows explorer's interface you are familiar with to perform the common tasks in your FTP server, such as create, list, copy, or delete files and folders.
Hope this tutorial can be useful for those who were not aware of this method.
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