The Difference Between a File Server & an FTP Server
Functiono File servers store data for an entire network, just as an individual computer's hard drive stores data for that individual computer. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers run an FTP application to exchange files over the internet, which is the world's largest network.
Similaritieso File serving and FTP serving are both networking methods that involve file transfer between computers. FTP servers need to work together with file servers in order to function. In a network using FTP, file servers store data while FTP servers transmit that data over the Internet, with both being necessary for file transfer to occur.
o FTP servers download files from or upload files to file servers. FTP servers move files to and from file server locations. FTP servers require file servers, but file servers do not require FTP servers, since file servers also serve various intranet networks not connected to the Internet.
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HTTP and FTP are two different protocols developed at higher level of TCP protocol suite. HTTP has implementation as HTTP client(browser) and HTTP Server (Web server). Web server stores the web pages and other objects (of any type) that can be requested and rendered by browsers.
While FTP has FTP client and FTP Server applications where FTP server stores the files(any type) and FTP client is used to send the files or receive the files from the FTP server.
FTP site has two way channel (one for command and other for file data) while HTTP site has only one channel for data(web request and response)
Telnet is a terminal service and uses SSH (Used in many cases to control a webserver via command line). FTP is a File Transfer Protocol and is used generally to transfer files to and from a webserver. An example of an excellect ftp program is Filezilla:
(http://filezilla-project.org/) Open source/Free
An ftp server is a subset of file servers. Ftp is the protocol you use to get the files.
You should use pppd to define a connection between the two computers, then normal TCP/IP networking (telnet, ftp, http, NFS, SMB etc) will work without any programming.
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i think is Telnet
FTP is a commonly used protocol used to transfer files. There are many ready-made solutions; it might not be necessary to program it. On the other hand, you may need to integrate FTP into some other application. In other words, if you already decided to program in Java, you may need to add FTP capabilities to it.
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The user needs an account and password and responds appropriately when ftp or telnet asks for the credentials.
Telnet is similar to HTTP and FTP in that all three use the TCP protocol for connection-oriented
telnet,FTP,e-mail etc
Students and professors will be able to Telnet to the server but unable to FTP files to and from the server.
FTP is a File Transfer Protocol (a method of transferring files from one location to another.... Telnet would be more of an emulation/connectivity protocol where you can connect to another system and Signon / natigate through the other systems menu option / type commands etc.... eg. you could use Telnet as 5250 emulation and sign on to the iseries (AS/400) once, connected you can do whatever the host system/user security permits you cannot do this in ftp
FTP and Telnet are considered OSI layer 7 protocols. If you are blocking the service, then layer 3 or 4 (network or transport) is responsible.
scp is secure copy ftp is file transfer protocol. FTP is a file transfer protocol as send the file inside the network
If you want better security, use secure shell (ssh) instead of telnet. Actually, don't use telnet at all if possible, as it transmits all information in plain text.
Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks. Its concept was conceived in 1969 and is one of the first internet standards for communicating across computers. FTP - File Transfer Protocol is similar to Telnet but does not require is much knowledge of command line usage. FTP is used to create a file server known as an FTP server which is a location created on the web that allows banks of files to be hosted/made available for download. Many file sharing services are set up in this manner.
Telnet is an application layer protocol (Layer 7). Its functionality is similar to any of the layer 7 protocols, including DHCP, DNS, FTP, etc.
Using FTP, TELNET, SNMP, SMTP etc we can share resources in computer networking.