Runtime Client

[mimic]

Hello,

I like yummyFTP very much and use it all the time. Congratulations to this great piece of software.

In day-to-day work I have often the situation, that customers want to send me a large file.

On one hand I don't like to get e-mails with large files attached (that is stupid), on the other side, e-mail accounts are often limited for bandwidth reason. What I can understand.

So I looked for a solution to give my customers an "easy" access to an FTP-Share on my server.

In most cases it is important that the way, they transfer data to my FTP-Account, is seamless and easy integrated into their desktop environment. So the best way would be, that I could create a runtime app from yummyFTP for a certain ftp-account, with minimal menus and functions - and send it them for use on their platform. If this runtime-client would be able to run on mac's as well as on windows, this would be a killer-app.

All solutions I know, Interarchie Alias, cPanel Secure Webdisk, .mac Account, etc. are in any way restricted and I don't want to bother my clients with buying software, just to sending me a big file.

Do you think, this would be possible to integrate into yummyFTP one time? I would pay for a master - solution with this feature a much higher price than for a standard FTP-Client.

Best regards
Gordian

[JD]

Secure FTP Alias is exactly what you're looking for. Check it out

[paulc]

Not only that, but you can specify a path as well. Each client can have their unique FTP Alias that goes to THEIR folder.

WAY cool feature!

[spacific]

No, mimic wants it to run on Windows as well as Macs. Something I requested some time ago, but that's a big ask I suppose ... !  It would certainly be a fantastic solution, as expecting all one's clients to have Macs is just not reasonable.

[JD]

Yes, spacific is right - I missed that requirement.

Any Windows programmers out there who might be interested in some kind of partnership/deal? A quick Google reveals plenty of example FTP and SFTP client code for Windows, so it would probably be trivial for a Windows programmer to put something together. I guess I could try myself, but ... well, it's Windows! Blech!!