FTP supports file transfers between machines connected to the Internet. The Internet is a resource-sharing network consisting of governmental, research, and educational organizations. You need to know the remote-machine's host name or IP number before you can communicate with it. The orion, taurus, and libra systems are connected to the Internet and therefore supports file exchange with other Internet machines.
Some machines offer public or anonymous ftp access.
Anonymous access means you can access the machine without a valid account and password on the machine. The remote machine will prompt you for your user name and password. If you have an account on the machine, enter your account and password. When you enter incorrect information for the user name or password, you get a login error message. Command Description ls Lists the file information on the remote machine in the short format.