Readme for lion-ftpd-enable These Applescript apps were created on August 13, 2011 by Jeff Kendall. I made this when I found out the scan to ftp feature on my Brother printer stopped working since I upgraded to OS X 10.7 Lion. I hadn't noticed because I rarely scan documents. I found instructions on the net but I realized the majority of OS X users don't want to go digging around in the terminal and especially don't want to deal with sudo. Starting with version 0.3 there is only one app to enable or disable ftpd. Run the app and if ftpd is running, the app offers to disable it. If ftpd is not running, the app offers to enable it. Starting with version 0.2, the enable app checks to see if ftpd is already running before launching it and the disable app checks to see if ftpd is running before disabling it. Self dismissing dialog boxes and online help is added. Added readme file. The commands in this script can be run by hand in terminal. They are: To enable ftpd: sudo /usr/libexec/ftpd -D To disable ftpd: sudo killall ftpd Don't forget to run the ftpd-enable app again when you are done "scanning to ftp" and pick "disable" as this prevents you leaving ftpd running which is a security concern and is the reason Apple took out this feature in Lion to begin with. For more info go to http://www.troncept.com/lion-ftpd-enable Requirements: * Intel Mac running OS X 10.7 Lion * Properly configured /private/etc/ftpusers and /private/etc/ftpd.conf (These are already there if you ever enabled ftp server under Snow Leopard and upgraded to Lion) * Must be run by Admin user. * Must enter admin user password to actually enable or disable the ftpd server. Version History: v0.3 8/23/2011 Bug fixes, single app to enable/disable ftpd v0.2 8/14/2011 Bug fixes, dialog box v 0.1 8/13/2011 Initial Release