Comments on: CyberNotes: Map a FTP to a Drive in Windows

By: Ambassador

Ambassador — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:33:54 +0000

I did what the article suggested and mapped a folder. For some silly reason though I wanted a drive with a letter. I played with several of the programs listed and here is what I found.

NetDrive works well. The only problem was that I wanted to name the drive “Server (S:)” and I was only able to name it “NetDrive @ Server (S:)” I could not for the life of me figure out how to get the “NetDrive @” to go away.

Webdive worked well too and did not add the name extension in front of the drive name. But they changed the drive icon to their own cute thing that I did not want.

What finally did work was one called DirectNetDrive. It did not add anything and is free for home use.

I am guessing that if you knew a little about programming that you could alter NetDrive so that it did not add the extension fairly easily. I think it is free for home and office use.

What got me started on this was to find a free DropBox alternative. I think this is the way to go!

By: James Campebell

James Campebell — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:22:59 +0000

This really doesn’t map it to a “Drive” just a shortcut and a wizard to do it, it is still just an ftp site as far as windows is concerned, it does not map to an actual drive letter. You should change the title.

Thanks,
James Campbell
MCP,MCSA,MCSE,SEC +

By: nhoj

nhoj — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:36:02 +0000

can i map a ftp address?

By: Cilla

Cilla — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:21:43 +0000

Thanks a lot for that.

Only thing missing is how to use it in a batch file..

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:38:57 +0000

Now I understand! Thanks

By: Ward Christensen

Ward Christensen — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:46:19 +0000

Password: If the site support anonymous FTP, the tradition is to use your email address as the password – I’d call that a “courtesy”, i.e. me@mydomain.com

However, most FTP sites really do need a userID and password, so the password you use is “your” password.

A way to work on this is to do a command line FTP, and work until you get access.

I’m going to do it with one of my domains:

1) either ftp then open mydomain; or ftp mydomain

NOTE: Regarding the person saying you MUST use ftp://ftp. – this may or may not be true depending upon the ftp server. However it IS a good suggestion to at least TRY it, as sometimes you can go ftp://mydomain.com... other times you must use ftp://ftp.myotherdomain.com... depending upon the domain.

2) it will ask a user – user your userID, or for anonymous FTP (ONLY of course if supported – and rarely supported) use: anonymous

3) It will ask you for your password (even if you put in a bogus userID, because it doesn’t want to make it easy to guess a userID)

You should then be in. It should give you an “OK. ….” message.

If this doesn’t work, you don’t have an ID, or the right password, or FTP isn’t supported, etc.

IF you DO log on, and want to learn about command-line FTP, type ? to see a list of commands. FUNDAMENTALLY: (I’ll put commands in [...]) [ascii] for text transfers; [binary] for binary transfers; [ls] to list files; [dir] also works; [get] to get a file from ftp; [put] to upload a file.

But back to mapping a drive – once you know you can ftp in, do a: quit

Now, knowing your ID and password, go back and try it as a mapped drive.

______
Ward Christensen, inventor of xmodem (and BBSs–W/Randy Suess, HW Guru)

By: Camilo Martin

Camilo Martin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:48:18 +0000

I had the same problem. I had the old, but very lightweight, NetDrive. Now I have a newer version (or a different NetDrive altoghether) that supports SFTP and it’s free. I got it from here: [netdrive.net]

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:16:07 +0000

I dont know what password I should enter when I connect to the ftp server >.< How can you change the password?

By: Quill

Quill — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Thanks dude for this post!
Extremely informative.

Thanks for contributing!

By: FredFF

FredFF — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:53:20 +0000

Hello, with this method you can’t edit a file directly on the FTP server.
The file you load in the texte editor is placed in windows temporary file. As a consequence, if you save it, you do on your local machine, not on the ftp server…
I have not found a good solution yet.
FTPdrive was perfect with XP, but it does not work properly with Windows7.
Netdrive is way too slow…