TECHNICAL HELP

Setting Up FTP Using Windows Explorer

This article will guide you through setting up FTP to work with Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems.

We recommend you only use this method if it is not possible to install an FTP program such as Cyberduck.

Requirements

Before you start, be sure you have these handy:

Username: Your FTP username.
Password: Your FTP password.

These will have been sent to you in an email from a member of the RMD web team.

Instructions

Open a Windows Explorer window, this could be anything from My Computer, to My Documents. Once the window is open you will notice there is a Address Bar along the top, much like the Address Bar in an Internet Browser.

To connect to our FTP server you need to type in the following into the Address Bar, remembering the replace username and password with the username and password that was emailed to you.

ftp://username:password@rmdl.co.uk

Once you have entered this simply press enter on your keyboard and the RMD FTP Server will be opened as if it were a folder on your computer, you can then either copy and paste files into this window or drag and drop them in.

This method is not ideal and we recommend you use an FTP program such as Cyberduck to connect to our FTP Server, this method should only be used when it is not possible to install and application on your computer.

Posted By: Luke Turner