FTP No Longer works in High Sierra?

Hi, any chance you can screenshot your settings or list exactly as you have them. I'm trying with exactly the same scanner and cant get it to work for me doing exactly as you describe. Would really appreciate if you can

while I can appreciate Apple's "we must advance forward mindset" the rest of the world is still using FTP and Telnet WTH... This should have been at the top of the list in the "about update"

You should never ever run any software updates on a business critical machine unless you test it first.

I have a Kyocera TASKalfa 2551ci multi function machine. I have been using FTP for many years and no problems. Unfortunately, FTP is no longer supported with High Sierra. I tried the suggestion of downloading the 3rd party FTP software but could not get it to configure with my Kyocera. I then spoke with the Technical Service at Kyocera and they told me the best option was to use SMB. In the past SMB did not work with my machine and my mac but now does. Here is how I set it up:

On my mac, System Preferences/Sharing then check file sharing, then click options and make sure you check "Share Files and folders using SMB" click done. That should bring you back to the screen with a "Shared Flolders" column. Click the plus sign and then add the folder that you want to scan to. Note: on the sharing screen under computer name you will see the official name of your computer. You will need this exact name for setting up your scanner "host name"

On my Kyocera under machine address book i add a new entry and then enter the info under the SMB section:

Host Name: is the exact computer name from the mac

Port: I don't think it matters but the default on mine was "445"

Path is the folder name and mine is: Scans

Login is the username and password you use to login to your computer.

Hope this is helpful!

I have a beautiful old $15,000 dollar Fujixerox Document Centre printer complete with A4 / A3 scanning and printing. Worked a treat until the other day when Apple decided that FTP was no longer worth holding on to. I have spent the last few hours trying to get SMB to work but no combination of guesses gets the documents through to my server.

The cruel thing for me is that on my computer, I can easily enter an address and get the shared folder where documents used to be stored to come up.

I cannot see any alternative but to ditch the latest OS "upgrade" from Apple and go back to a version of the Server Software that actually had all the familiar protocols in place, like "File Serving" and "FTP". Still valid protocols and for me, could go on working forever.

There is an old saying: If it aint broke, don't fix it. Apple just can't resist the temptation to fiddle with things that are not broken and in the name of progress, break them.

Do you have any ideas about how to get the SMB to actually work?

The alternative is to not "ditch the latest OS upgrade from Apple" and apply some of the solutions above. I have successfully got Kyocera and Epson network printers working fine on High Sierra, both through FTP (with the third party application) and natively with SMB, so there are working solutions if you care to take the time to find them. My solution to SMB was more or less here, but I still had to tweak it a bit. I guess it depends on your printer and network setup…

"This folder was actually on the Desktop, odd that I didn't have to put the full path in..."

Not really 😉 You must have defined that path as the SMB share path in filesharing on your Mac(s).