Non-Mac FTP advice

[metawidget]

I'm looking for recommendations for a Windows FTP program, preferably a simple, Free Software or freeware utility that lets users drag and drop from their usual explorer windows and won't be too scary for people who might be new to FTP: I'm going to teach a workshop soon and I want people on each platform to be running the same software (I'm a Mac person, but it's a big tent). Any suggestions are appreciated!

Also, on the off chance that there exists such a thing as a Linux user who wants to learn very basic HTML, what are the (again, free in one way or another) text editor and FTP client that Just Work and are good for beginners on there?

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[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

For Windows, I believe I used to use a Windows Explorer extension (which makes FTP destinations show up as remote folders just like Windows shared driectories). Can't remember what it's called now, though.

For Linux, ncftp is a great command-line FTP client, and gedit (for Gnome) or kate (for KDE) are the basic text editors. I've only used kate, and it's got all the feature's you'd want in a programmer's editor. I'm under the impression gedit's a little more basic, more like just notepad, but I'm not sure.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

On Linux, with Gnome and its file manager, Nautilus, you can have FTP server mounted on the desktop and viewed like any other part of the filesystem, thanks to gnome-vfs.

[ramou.livejournal.com]

... just work? I don't believe in it any more.

For HTML editing, as for all of my development, I'm using eclipse. It's not a basic text editor, but if you go through the trouble of installing the WTP plugins and all those requirements, you've essentially got a pretty clever editor tied into a test-server with built in revision control support. Oh, and you can set all that up on Linux/Windows/Mac and it looks and feels the same.

Windows one-stop FTP client of choice is currently CoreFTP. Major caveat, once you've connected to one server and done what you've needed, don't connect to another server. Shut it down and restart it. To clarify, it's not the least buggy software I've found, it's just the one that always does what I need.

[blueheron.livejournal.com]

FileZilla has never failed me. It supports FTP, FTP over SSL and SFTP. I have it installed on all the computers at work.

In a pinch, I also use WinSCP, but I am not sure if that supports FTP...

[ramou.livejournal.com]

I took a look at FileZilla. Thanks, it's really quite nice. Everything I love about CoreFTP, and so far none of what I hate (the bugs, really... so many bugs). I wonder how I could have overlooked this in finding a nice sftp client.