I have always thought that FTP was one of those things that would eventually die out - at least in corporate networks. It should certainly never have to raise its ugly head in a home network. And until now, it has never had a presence in our home network.
But it has made a comeback, all thanks to Vista.
When we were running XP, it was pretty simply to create shares and map drives between computers in order to shovel files back and forth. The shares would occasionally crap out, but otherwise it was bloody simple to setup and absolutely foolproof to use.
Vista fucked all that up. I've created accounts, setup shares and all of that, and I can't move one byte of data from one PC to another across the network. Until now, everything had to move via an old fashioned sneakernet (modernised by thumb drives) and that drove me nuts.
I finally gave in yesterday and decided to stop buggerising around with Vista and go back to FTP. One PC has been setup with Filezilla and we can now stuff back and forth with ease. I know that FTP is less secure (like sending passwords in clear text etc), but I don't give a bugger. I don't work for ASIO, and I don't see why I need a DSD type network at home to protect our holiday photos.
This just goes to show that if you implement a security regime that is ridiculously strict, people will find all sorts of ways around it.
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