On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> SFTP is, I believe, just FTP tunneled over a forwarded SSH port. Can
> someone who has studied this confirm or deny?
Actually, both variants of sftp start an instance of ssh, and then have
the remote sshd fork off teh remote component ("sftpserv" for the free
one, "sftp-server2" for the F/Secure one). Neither needs an ftp daemon
running.
> There is a free (gratis), Open Source GUI front-end to PSCP (PuTTY's scp(1)
> implementation) available:
>
> http://www.daplay.org/pscopy.htm
>
> It isn't SecureFX by any stretch of the imagination, but it is "better" then
> a command line.
Thanks, I'll take a look at that.
> I have used SecureCRT and SecureFX successfully with OpenSSH in several
> deployments. SecureFX just worked. I had to set a couple options for
> SecureCRT to work with SSH protocol version 2. They were:
>....
I thought I read that SecureFX depended on the F/Secure variant of sftp.
I'll have to look at it again.
> (gratis) software available. If your organization wants to spend some money
> to gain some convince, that is their choice. If you have that many NT client
No, we haven't yet; I've been pushing OpenSSH. I'm trying to come up with
acceptable alternatives so we won't have to spend the money.
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