We have to give the necessary permissions so that it can work properly. When we have run google-drive-ftp-adapter, it will ask us to link it to our account. It is something that can happen, but it is easily solved just by rerunning it a second time. * Note: when we executed it for the first time this file gave an error indicating that it could not be read correctly. This is what allows you to configure Drive as a CDN. Inside there we must execute the jar file that we will see in order to start the program.Īdditionally, we will also see that there is a tool called PoweredBy. It is right there where we have to enter. One of them is google-drive-ftp-adapter-master. Once we have downloaded the ZIP file from GitHub and unzipped it on the computer, we will see that there are different folders. This, as we will see, will give a series of possibilities to users who have accounts in this popular Google service. Within the information we will see that the mission of this program is to be able to use the FTP protocol through Google Drive. In GitHub we will see all the information regarding google-drive-ftp-adapter, as well as the button to download the ZIP file that contains what the program itself is and all the content that we are going to have to download on our computer and run later.

Of course, it is necessary to have Java previously installed on the computer for it to work correctly.

It is free, open source software, and we can download it from GitHub. The first thing we have to do is download the google-drive-ftp-adapter program to our computer. We will have to download it on our computer, configure it and start using it with our user to be able to upload or download files.

We are going to refer to google-drive-ftp-adapter, which is the necessary application to achieve our goal. Steps to use Google Drive as an FTP serverĪfter having briefly explained what the FTP protocol is, how the client and the server act, we are going to explain how we can use Google Drive for it.

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