FTP Program For Your Windows 95 or Windows 98 Machine

For Windows 95 or Windows 98, click here to download a free FTP program. file. A very good shareware program, WS_FTP, is also available at www.ipswitch.com. The examples below are specific to WS_FTP.

Many different FTP programs are available from a number of sites on the Internet. Some are download.com, windows95.com, or shareware.com.

FTP Program For Your Macintosh

Either Anarchie or Fetch can be used to maintain access to your Web pages. To get a copy of Fetch from the original authors, see http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/.

Accessing Your FishNet Web Account

Configure your FTP client to be able to connect to the host name, account name and password as given to you by FishNet.

Windows: With the ws_ftp client, press the 'Connect' button, then the 'New' button to clear the fields; for another FTP client go to the screen to enter new account information. Enter the description as your organization or personal name. Enter your specific account data for the host name, user name and password exactly as given, including case sensitivity and special characters. You may want to preset the Local PC: to a specific drive and/or directory on your system. Leave the Remote Host and Account fields blank. You may wish to check the Save Password field to preserve your password across sessions. Press the large Save button at the top center to save all the information.

Macintosh: The Fetch program will have good instructions with it to describe how to set up bookmarked sites for easy recovery.

The specific steps in the rest of this description are targeted to the Windows machines, but there are still some important general tips that apply to both Windows and Mac platforms. Please read this carefully.

Now you are ready to connect to your Web site. Press the large OK button to connect to FishNet's Web server. If this does not work, make sure everything is entered as described above. If this initial connection does not work, contact support@fni.com. After you connect, you are in your account on the server; you cannot see any other part of the server except your account. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FILES IN THE ACCOUNT YOU ARE IN ARE LIVE!!!

You can now transfer files between your machine and the server. You can create and remove directories as well as navigate your account tree. You may organize your data any way you wish via remote FTP.

NOTE:

• All tranfers of HTML files should be in ASCII or TEXT mode.
• All transfers of GIF or other image files should be in IMAGE or BINARY mode.
• file names on FishNet are case sensitive.

Your home page must be named either index.html or index.htm to work properly; these names must be lower case. If both names exist, the index.html will be used first.

DOS and Windows 3.1 are case insensitive, and when you transfer a new copy of your home page it will be in a file named index.htm. DOS/Windows limit the file extension to three characters.

Windows 95 and ws_ftp32 will maintain the case of the filename. To force all names to be lower case, select the Options, Session Options buttons and then check the "Force Lowercase" option. If you are using the ws_ftp32 program on Windows 95, it will be able to transfer long file names. The file index.html will transfer successively to your Web account without shortening the name.

Thanks again for your account with FishNet!