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les_garten is offline les_garten
2009-12-09 , 14:58
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#39
Originally Posted by ewan View Post
IME both scp and rsync over SSH do pretty well on efficiency, have the advantage of supporting compression, and critically, encrypt the authentication step, which ftp does in plain text.



Which is a fine reason for wanting an FTP client. Not so much for wanting an FTP server, unless your hosting is running on an N900.
I do see an advantage to having a FTP server that is started "on occasion" on N900. Every Windows OS has an FTP client built in. If you do support, you might have some files kept on your device. Then you could start the server if you need the files and make them available over the network. Then stop the server when you're done. It would require no SW to be put on the client machine and could be quickly deployed.