Simple file sharing between FC2 and Mac OS X?

[James Wilkinson]

David L Norris wrote:
> SSH should work great but you'd need a real user account on her machine.
> In Nautilus, don't use ssh:// as it won't prompt for a password and
> you'll be left with cryptic error messages.  I use Nautilus with SFTP to
> transfer files to/from my laptop, web server, etc.

D. D. Brierton wrote:
> Ah, now that really is interesting. One of the things that I've been
> confused about is whether sftp needs to connect to a machine that has an
> ftp server running on it, or whether all that needs to be running on the
> machine you're connecting to is sshd.

<snip>

> Excellent. I've used this method to connect to other machines before,
> but the machines in question always had *both* an ftp server and an ssh
> server running on them. I know sftp is part of ssh, but I've never been
> clear on whether all it requires at the other end is an ssh server, an
> ftp server, or both.

Um. The term "sftp" is used for two separate technologies. You're using
the sftp command. That is built in to OpenSSH (and to the commercial
SSH, I believe), and uses SSH channels. The protocol is inherently
different to normal FTP, so doesn't use an FTP daemon.

You can try it: disable your ftp daemon, and sftp connect to localhost.

You can also get SSL-encrypted FTP: normal FTP, that just happens to have
SSL encryption. Some companies will refer to this as SFTP.

James.

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