ftp high sierra

I reinstated ftp from GNU inetutils source code as follows:

Make sure that you've installed Xcode from the App Store (FREE)

Open a terminal window and type:

cd ~

mkdir inetutils

cd inetutils

curl http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-1.9.4.tar.gz -o inetutils-1.9.4.tar.gz

tar xvzf inetutils-1.9.4.tar.gz

cd inetutils-1.9.4

./configure --disable-servers --disable-clients --enable-ftp

make

sudo make install

This installs "ftp" in /usr/local/bin

You should be able to access it from the command line now using the usual "ftp" command.

inetutils contains a bunch of networking tools, if you want to enable telnet again at the same time you would add "--enable-telnet" at the same time. inetutils does include an ftp server (ftpd), but I haven't tried that. No reason why it shouldn't work though. I don't recommend installing the GNU versions of the other inetutils apps as they are still part of High Sierra and could cause problems down the line (e.g. when OS updates etc).

In the Finder use COMMAND-K to access FTP servers. However, OS X only allows downloading from FTP servers. If you want more just download and use one of the 100 or more FTP applications around both free or commercial.

Talk with the tech support for the company that makes your copy machine or with your IT specialists that maintain your network.

No help.
Scanners have three options.
Email is limited to 9 page scan.
SMB ***** to Mac.

FTP has been tried and true since the 1980s (just doesn't have transport encryption, which isn't needed in this case anyway) and High Sierra decided to buck 30 years of usefulness and drop the service 😟

Not replacing perfectly good scanner technology.

have same problem for communicating with my security cam. It sends photo's using FTP to my iMac.

Hope that Apple solves this.

See this article macOS Sierra: Enter proxy server settings