I want to instal a "secure" ftp server

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Mar 12 15:41:11 UTC 2010


In the last episode (Mar 12), Matthew Seaman said:
> On 12/03/2010 10:37:08, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> > Will Windows users be able to use an ftp client to connect? I've never
> > implemented ssh with ftp before so I want to clarify for my
> > understanding.
> 
> No, they'll need a SSH/SFTP client to be able to connect.  Don't worry
> though -- the clients work exactly like FTP clients: it's all the
> underlying stuff that's different and much more secure.
> 
> Try WinSCP (http://winscp.net/eng/docs/introduction) as a client.  It
> works very much like Norton Commander.  Plus it's Free.  Or putty for
> those that prefer a CLI environment
> (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)

Other excellent sftp clients are:

FileZilla - http://www.filezilla-project.org/
muCommander - http://www.mucommander.com/

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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