Cute FTP Tutorial

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This tutorial will explain how to download and setup Cute FTP, and then how to use it to upload your personal homepage on to ASAHI Net's server for the world to see.

1. Installing Cute FTP

Just click on the download link to start the download procedure. Save the file to your hard disk, you may find that saving it to your desktop is a good idea so that you can find it easily once the download has completed.

Once the download has completed (it should take 10 minutes at most with a 56K modem), double click on the file (it should be named something like cute3032.exe) to begin the installation of CuteFTP on your computer. Once the installation has completed you will be ready to begin setting up CuteFTP so that it will upload your homepage files to your ASAHI Net homepage space.

2. Setting up your FTP site.

Double-click the CuteFTP icon on your desktop. The FTP Site Manager window will appear.

Click on the Add site button. You are now going to set up CuteFTP so that when you use it to connect to our homepage server it will open at your homepage directory.

Site Label:
Enter ASAHI Net
Host Address:
Enter netftp.asahi-net.or.jp
User ID:
Enter your ASAHI Net user ID.
Password:
Enter your ASAHI Net password.
Host Type:
Leave as Auto-Detect
Initial Remote Directory:
Enter homepage if going to use your default Homepage space
or
Enter freeaddr followed by the Freeaddress you have previously registered, if you want to upload file to your Freeaddress homepage space. For example, if your registered Freeaddress were cracking/cheese then you would enter freeaddr/cracking/cheese
Initial Local Directory:
Click on the browse button ... to the right of the Initial Local Directory: box to browse your hard disk drive for the folder which contains the file(s) you want to upload to your homepage space.

Click OK. You will then return to the FTP Site Manager, which should now look like this:

3. Connecting to ASAHI Net

To connect to ASAHI Net with Cute FTP, highlight ASAHI Net and then click on the Connect button. CuteFTP should already have configured itself to dial-up ASAHI Net, so you should find your computer dialing-up to ASAHI Net.

If you are having problems, open the Settings option from the FTP menu, select Options and then click on the Connection tab. You will need to make sure that Connect to the Internet using a modem is selected, and the name of the dial-up networking connection you are using to connect to ASAHI Net is selected in the Use the following Dial-UP Networking connection window.

On successful connection, a window will open as follows.

The left hand side of the window is a reflection of your current "Local" directory, i.e. the one on your computer. The right hand side of the window shows you what files you have in your "Remote" directory, i.e. the one on our homepage server and therefore visible on the "Web".

Once the download has completed (it should take 10 minutes at most with a 56K modem), double click on the file (it should be named something like cute3032.exe) to begin the installation of CuteFTP on your computer. Once the installation has completed you will be ready to begin setting up CuteFTP so that it will upload your homepage files to your ASAHI Net homepage space. Should you need to change either directory, click in the box that contains the directory name, and then select the directory you require.

4. Uploading

In order to move files from your "Local" directory to the "Remote" directory on our homepage server (called uploading), just use your mouse to select files from the left hand side, and drag them to the right hand side. When it asks you to confirm the upload, say yes. If the upload goes well, you will see your file(s) appear on the right hand side of the screen. That's it!

Note: Make sure that the main file of your personal homepage is named either index.htm or index.html.

5. Miscellaneous functions

You can delete or rename files on the server. Use your mouse to select a file or files on the server, and press the right-hand mouse button for a list of possible functions. Choose delete or rename accordingly.