However, in some older versions of Mac OS you can even connect to ftp from the Finder. Whether you want to install the full inetutils package, or just tnftp, that’s all up to you and your specific needs and requirements.įTP has been removed in macOS High Sierra and macOS Mojave, but ftp and ftp server remain in older versions of Mac OS and Mac OS X system software even if ftp server has to be manually activated with launchctl. With homebrew you can achieve this with the following brew command:Īdditionally, if you want the tnftpd server, you can use the following command: To install an ftp client only, you can install tnftp on the Mac. Once Homebrew has finished installing the inetutils package you can run the regular ftp command as usual, for example you can connect to gnu.org’s ftp server to make sure everything is working as expected:įtp of the obvious advantages of installing ftp and ftpd server with inetutils is that you get other useful network utilities so you don’t have to manually install telnet on Mac if you need to, it just comes together in the same package.
