MacOS X

Enabling the FTP Server on Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard)

1.	Open the System Preferences (Apple > System Preferences)

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2. Click the Sharing Control Panel

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3. Click the File Sharing service and then click the Options... button at the bottom right of the window.

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4. Tick the 'Share files and folders using FTP' option, then click Done

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5. Close out of the System Preferences

Enabling the FTP Server on Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and below

1. Open the System Preferences (Apple > System Preferences)

open_system_preferences

2.	Click the Sharing Control Panel

3.	Tick the 'FTP Access' box as shown below:

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4.	Close the System Preferences window.

Setting Administrative Privileges on Macintosh

When using FTP with a Macintosh Genie server, you need to use the user name and password of a user with administrative privileges.

1.	Open the System Preferences (Apple > System Preferences).

2.	Click the Accounts Panel

3.	Check that the 'Allow user to administer this computer' checkbox is ticked, as shown below:

4.	Close the System Preferences window.