an ftp client that works, please!

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 22:27 +1000, Adam Conrad wrote: 
> 
> lftp rocks, if you're not afraid of CLI tools.
only if I have to.

> If you'd prefer a GUI, you realize Nautilus can do FTP natively, right?
>  Just pop open any Nautilus window, Ctrl-L to enter a location, and type
> "ftp://some.host.org/".
Wo dude! Why didn't I know that? It 'Just worked!' Wasn't any feedback
during 'preparing to copy' which took a while for my 300+ MB site -
should have some kinda progress bar, but then it went for it and did a
fine job.

> You can also use Places->Connect to Server and select FTP (with login),
> and whatever you choose as the "name to use for connection" will end up
> in your Places menu.
Oh wow, that just worked too! Very useful.
Now if someone could tell me the best way to synchronise a local and
remote folder I'd be a made man.

Thanks Adam