FileZilla Problems

[Vivian Cornwell]

I needed a new free FTP program about two years ago. Someone here suggested FileZilla and it has been working great until last week. All of a sudden I cannot get on-line with the program. Cindi has the program also so I asked her to bring hers up so I could check to see if my settings were wrong. She couldn't get on-line either.

I had not changed a thing. I had used it a couple weeks ago and all of a sudden it says "Invalid Host/Domain name" and could not connect to server. I ran a diagnostic test and the test says everything is good. I checked my firewall and FileZilla is already excluded. I went to Q & E on the FileZilla web site and other people are having the same problem. They say they have been using it for years and now cannot get connected.

I downloaded it again and still have the same problem.

Has anyone else who uses FileZilla had any problems? Do you have a suggestions about this or a suggestion for another free FTP program? If I download another program will the files I am using now be deleted?

Thanks for any help.

[Gina Stevenson]

Makes me wonder if they have some problems over at Mozilla ... and that the Firefox problems I've had aren't all on my computer's end, considering the times I've totally deleted everything related thereto and DL'd it over & over again (even telling it to use its own defaults).

[Zach Wingo]

I highly recommend WinSCP (http://winscp.net) I've never experienced any problems with it. As for Filezilla, it's also been highly recommended on the Media Temple (http://mediatemple.net[/url) forums by web developers but it's also the only one I've seen complaints about it.

[Billie Goodson]

Downloaded the latest build from SourceForge and it worked fine for me. Did you try the Network configuration Wizard under the Edit tab? Have you also tried to log into the ftp server through the command line? http://www.textheavy.com/tutorials/winftp.html

If you can connect to the server using the command line, then you would at least isolate the problem to Filezilla.

Personally, I use fireftp with my Firefox browser... But, I now have filezilla just in case. :)

I have also used Winscp and like it. All a matter of preferences and which one has that feature that we grow to love.