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#Netdrive 2 connection series
For the next installments in my series about FTP clients, I will be taking a look at two FTP redirectors at the same time. In this specific blog post, I will focus on NetDrive (from Bdrive Inc.), whereas my previous post looked at WebDrive (from South River Technologies).Īt the time of this blog's writing, NetDrive is a for-retail FTP client and redirector which is available from the following URL:įor this blog post I will be using NetDrive version 2.3.2.
NetDrive is different from many of the other FTP clients that I have reviewed because it is an Internet protocol redirector, meaning that it allows you to map drive letters to a variety of Internet repositories.
#Netdrive 2 connection install
When you install and open NetDrive, you are presented with the list of supported Internet protocols and repositories which you can use for mapping drives:Īs you can see from the illustration above, NetDrive's list of support technologies is quite extensive: DropBox, Box.net, Google Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Openstack Swift, FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV.
#Netdrive 2 connection windows
When you add a drive or configure the settings for one of the default drives, you are presented with a dialog box where you can enter the settings for the drive connection note that there are very few settings for FTP connections:Īs you add drives, the NetDrive user interface will display the drives and their current connection status:Īs an added touch, NetDrive customizes its drive icons in Windows Explorer, so you can easily see the type of mapped drive for each connection: NETDRIVE 2 REVIEW INSTALL I would love to take an in-depth look at all of the supported protocols in this review, but this series is about FTP clients, so I'll move on to the FTP-specific features that I normally review. Using NetDrive 2.3 with FTP over SSL (FTPS) NETDRIVE 2 REVIEW SERIES
NetDrive 2.3 has built-in support for FTP over SSL (FTPS), although it only appears to support Explicit FTPS - and it does so in a confusing way. With the above information in mind, I needed to manually change the port number back to 21 in order to use Explicit FTPS with NetDrive: Unfortunately, when you do so, the dialog box will change the port to 990, which is the port number for Implicit FTPS however, in my testing I could not get Implicit FTPS to work: When you are editing the settings for an FTP drive connection, you need to check the box for SSL/TLS in order to enable FTPS. Using NetDrive 2.3 with Virtual FTP Hosts True FTP hosts are not supported natively by NetDrive 2.3, and there are no settings which allow you to customize the login environment in order to work around this situation. This concludes my quick look at a few of the FTP features that are available with NetDrive 2.3, and here are the scorecard results: Client NetDrive 2.3's login settings allow you to specify the virtual host name as part of the user credentials by using syntax like "|username" or "\username", so you can use virtual FTP hosts with NetDrive 2.3. Despite several attempts, I could not get NetDrive to work with Implicit FTPS.I could find no way to customize an FTP connection in order to enable true FTP hostnames.That wraps things up for today's review of NetDrive 2.3. Your key take-aways should be: NetDrive has some nice features, and it supports a wide variety of protocols with a similar user experience that being said, NetDrive has very few settings for drive connections, so its capabilities are somewhat limited. I am currently working as a Programming Writer at Microsoft, and I have been with Microsoft since December of 1995.
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