FTP Server for individual client spaces

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Jul 10 14:39:59 UTC 2009


In the last episode (Jul 10), Steve Bertrand said:
> RS Wood wrote:
> > Finally, I'm aware FTP has inherent security liabilities as passwords
> > cross the net in clear text, but I'm not convinced casual users on
> > Windows boxes will be able to manage fun stuff like SSH connections or
> > alternative software, like SCP.
> 
> Provide them a link to a client software that uses SFTP. I use WinSCP
> (portable), which defaults to SFTP, and provides the server, username and
> password fields as soon as it is launched.

WinSCP is good.  Other nice free SFTP clients are FileZilla (has Windows, OS
X and Unix versions) and muCommander (Java so it will run on anything).

http://www.winscp.net/
http://www.filezilla-project.org/
http://www.mucommander.com/

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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