System Administration Guide: Network Services

  How to Open an ftp Connection to a Remote System

1. Ensure that you have ftp authentication.
   You must have ftp authentication, as described in Authentication for Remote Logins (ftp).
2. Open a connection to a remote system by using the ftp command.
   

   $ ftp remote-system

   If the connection succeeds, a confirmation message and prompt are displayed.
3. Type your user name.

   Name (remote-system:user-name): user-name

4. If prompted, type your password.

   331 Password required for user-name: Password: password

Opening an ftp Connection to a Remote System

This ftp session was established by the user smith on the remote system pluto:

$ ftp pluto Connected to pluto. 220 pluto FTP server ready. Name (pluto:smith): smith 331 Password required for smith: Password: password 230 User smith logged in. ftp>