ftp questions....

Steve Phillips steve at focb.co.nz
Sat Oct 30 21:46:22 UTC 2004


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On 10/30/04 10:42, bruce wrote:
>
>> also, are there any 'open source'/free ftp gui client apps that handle ftp
>> over ssh?
>
> Not really. There's sftp but that does not use an ftp server - it merely 
> emulates ftp functions over an ssh connection.  It's likely that you already 
> have that.  If you have an ssh daemon running, sftp probably already works. 
> In other words, you want a GUI sftp client, not a GUI ftp client.  Go go 
> google and search for "linux sftp gui" and you'll get a lot of responses. 
> For Windows, I use WinSCP, a free scp/sftp client.
>

Filezilla is also quite good.

-- 
Steve.




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