“Use a web FTP client to access files from an iPhone” by Mac OS X Hints runs through the general process of setting a web-based FTP client in order to access files on a computer system from an iPhone. The challenged as stated by the author is:
I keep a number of reference documents on a server at work that would be very handy to have access to on my iPhone while at work. The server is Windows 2003, and the iPhone does not provide an easy way to access shared files by ftp or smb.
In order to access those work files on his iPhone, he set up an FTP server (FileZilla) and a web-based FTP client (net2FTP). That web-based FTP client can then be accessed from the iPhone’s Safari browser.
This is a bit of an advanced tip and requires software installation and configuration on a file server. You are going to need Administrative access to the server, or a colleague who is able to carry out these steps for you. If you go about setting this up on your own, you should make sure everything is secure and password-protected since you are making private files available over the Web.
