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Connect to the FTP server from a client

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Connect to the FTP server from a client

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- [Narrator] Now that we have a server to connect to, let's set up FTP client software to connect to it. I'm using a different virtual machine here. The one I mentioned earlier that's going to be acting as the client. Let's take a look at the software that's available for us again. Alright, yum search, ftp, and again, this first item here just called ftp is the client that we want to install. So I'll write sudo yum install ftp. Alright, and I'll clear the screen. The ftp package is a pretty simple interface and it relies on a few basic commands. To open the software I'll type ftp and now we're at the ftp prompt. The first command I'd want to write is to tell the client to connect to a server. We'll open a connection with the open command. And then specify the address of our server. This could be a dms name or an IP address. Here I'll use the IP address of my server vm, 10.0.0.4. And press enter, I can see that I'm connected to the server. And I have a status number, in this case 220…

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