Here is a useful Windows tip:

You can use Microsoft Internet Explorer to view and manipulate files over an FTP connection.

For example you might have a Linux system called linux1 to which you can connect using FTP. If the login username is myuser and the password is mypassword, you could connect to linux1 using the following address string in Internet Explorer:

ftp://myuser:mypassword@linux1

The interface is much more pleasant than using the old ftp client from the Windows command line. For example you can highlight sets of files and/or directories, right-click and use the properties to see how much space those files/directories occupy. You can also copy/paste/delete files just as you can in local filestore.