Need some advice on the use of FTP. Our office has an older BizHub that has always employed an embedded “Scan to FTP” service. Konica-Minolta provided their own utility that we’ve had installed on a networked XP Pro PC. The utility has only one option, to specify the shared network folder where scanned images and documents are to be stored. From what I can understand, the utility grabs the output from the BizHub which is configured with the IP address of the computer running the utility. Without any user intervention, the BizHub scans, creates the preconfigured type of of file, then sends it to the address of the FTP “server” which stores it in the specified foler. Open the network shared folder, find the new file(s) and off you go. Very easy, very fast, quite efficient.
Now the problem. The supplied FTP utility apparently does not function in Windows 7 as it did in XP Pro (wow! what a surprise!), and we can’t dedicate a XP machine for the purpose. I can’t find any information about an updated version of the utility that supports Win7.
So here’s the question: does anyone know of any similar utility or other method that would mimic this functinality in Windows 7? Any way to configure one of the many freely available FTP servers, like FileZilla, etc., or possibly set up Win7’s own FTP server, to provide such functionality?
TIA for any suggestions, ideas.
