OS X’s Help Viewer is the default handler for the ‘help:’ protocol.) Protocols aren’t even necessarily Internet-related for example, Mac Helpers for specific protocols like ‘http:’, ‘afp:’, ‘gopher:’, etc. You can specify default helper apps forĭifferent tasks - email, FTP, web browsing, Usenet - as well as Internet Config provides a group of system-wide preferencesįor Internet-related stuff. Brief Interpolation on the History of Internet Config (Feel Free to Skip This Entire Section if You’re a Long-Time Mac User or if You’ve Arrived Here via Google and Are Just Looking for the Solution to the Same Problem I Had) To be with my Internet Config preferences. Thus, even though it was specific to Interarchy, the problem seemed Interarchy create fresh ones, but to no avail. Reverting to Interarchy 7.0, neither of which helped and (c) IĪrchived and removed my existing Interarchy preferences, letting Re-downloaded and re-installed Interarchy 7.1.1, and also tried Other Interarchy 7 users seem to have the problem (b) I Might be a manifestation of (a), of course, but that’s not aīut none of those were the source of my problem, because: (a) no Interarchy preferences had somehow become corrupted (which, if true, It was just my FTP helper, and it was only blocking me from setting itīeing that it was specific to Interarchy, I of course suspected thatĮither (a) there was some sort of bug in Interarchy 7.1.1 or (b) myĬopy of Interarchy had somehow become corrupted or (c) my Preferences - for my email client and web browser - were Interarchy, the one I wanted to set it to. I could set it to point to any other FTP client, just not Unset, and, worse, I was unable to reset it to point to Interarchy. Interarchy 7.1.1, the setting for my preferred FTP client became Last week, however, at some point shortly after upgrading to Months ago, after the release of Interarchy 7. My preferred default FTP client is Interarchy. So what's involved in setting up sftp - what are the performance effects with the encryption? And I'm still interested in opinions on third party ftp software - I've read that Mac OS X's implementation has issues - I'm interested in building and maintaining a solid, reliable server - so would appreciate ideas.Fixing Corrupt Preferences for Default Internet Helpers Wednesday, The Problem I have a large number of people using the site and moving to sftp seems like a good solution, but it might cause a real hiccup in use - I would need special clients - correct? (I am not allowing anonymous access.)Īlthough the data is not sensitive, it is important to keep the site secure to the extent that it will be available 24/7 and to keep the data from being compromised in any way. The server is kept up to date with all patches. We're using the server for uploads and downloads. I agree with you - that's probably not going to get me where I want to be but would still like to know how to set it up. The non standard port was a suggestion from a party that we will be working with as a security measure. clients, but I only support the ones mentioned.Īre there any other things that I need to consider before making a change like this? And do any of you have opinions about other products that I might use for a more secure ftp site? I looked recently at a product called Rumpus - any thoughts on that? Currently, I have clients on Macs and PCs using Internet Explorer, Fetch, and WS_Ftp Pro. My question is what changes do I need to make to the ftp service (if any), what changes to my firewall (I'm pretty sure that I just forward my new port number to the ftp server), and finally what do my clients need to do to connect using the non standard port. I'm concerned about security and in lieu of changing to something like sftp, I'd like to use a non standard port for ftp requests. On my firewall I am port forwarding port 21 to that server and everything is working fine. I currently have ftp running on a Mac OS X 10.3.9 server.
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