it is impossible unless you have a modded xbox. if you do, check this tut. http://www.xbox360scene.com/articles/ftp-ie.php
Any Windows PC can run the FTP client software, so that your PC can be its own ftp address. If you have a web site (such as a personal web site on comcast.net) you can use FTP to transfer files to and from it.
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This is called a server. Mostly called a FTP server.
program that locates files in public FTP archives
Why would you want to do that? A file transfer usually takes place between two computers - one is operating as a client and the other as a server. Running the client and server portion on the same PC to transfer files is very inefficient. You can use the ftp client to communicate with the ftp service on the same server/pc the same way as you would across the network; there is no difference.
If you are uploading your files to a remotely-hosted web site, then FTP (or, rather, secure FTP) is a good way of uploading to publish files to maintain your website.
The biggest advantages to an ftp server is that you can a file folder of files and most website building programs use ftp
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The purpose of an FTP server is to transfer files from your computer to your web server. The amount of files you can upload depends on the size of them. For the most part, the number of files to upload will not be an issue.
get in ftp will fetch only single file whereas with mget you can get multiple files. use wild char along with mget to transfer multiple files Examples ftp> mget *ftp> mget *.jpgftp> mget *.doc *.xls *.ppt
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FTP group multiple files into singlepackage. Client authorization is not required.