Most distributions of Windows software comes with a defaut FTP client. This program is very basic and has no graphical interface.

To launch the program, click on your Start menu, and click Run...

If you have a personal web page, type ftp home.grandecom.net in the text box. If you have a virtual domain, enter your domain: ftp www.yourdomain.com. Click OK to continue.



Next, you will see a standard dos window named ftp. After making the connection tot he server, you will be prompted for your username and password. If you have a personal web page you will enter your username, which is probably the first part of your primary email address (username@grandecom.net). The password will be the same the corresponding email password. If you have a virtual domain, the username and password will be the information that you gave us when signing up for your account. To login as an anonymous user, type "anonymous" as your username and enter your email address as your password.



There are only a few basic commands that you will need to use to upload files to your web site. But first, you will need to get to the appropriate starting folder. If you have a personal web site, you will need to place any files that you want accessible from the Internet into the public_html folder. If you have a virtual domain, you need to put your files in the html folder. If you are logged in as anonymous, you will need to change to the incoming directory (by typing cd incoming) to upload files. For security reasons, you will not be able to see the contents of this directory, but you may upload and download files of which you know the name.

To see a listing of files and folders, type dir
To change into the public_html folder, type cd public_html
To then see the contents of this folder, type dir again.



The arrows show where you type commands.

If you want to upload a file called index.html, type put index.html.

To download the same file type get index.html.

It is important to note that you must transfer images as binary files. To tell DOS FTP that you want to send or receive a binary file, type bin first. Alternativly, to upload text or html files, type asc first.



The command lcd will allow you to change your current local directory. If your files to be uploaded are in C:\windows\files, you would type lcd c:\windows\files before you uploaded anything. The command mkdir allows you to create a new directory.

Type help to get a list of other commands.

To logout of the ftp server, type bye