From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 15:41:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4998F106566B for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:41:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0728FC19 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o2CFf89f059313 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:41:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2CFf8uo041551 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:41:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o2CFf7pR041538; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:41:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:41:07 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20100312154107.GB4528@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4B99F9CB.8010601@eskk.nu> <201003120827.o2C8RChV025564@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <4B9A1954.9070201@eskk.nu> <4B9A1D6E.9030403@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B9A1D6E.9030403@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:41:09 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: krad , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Leslie Jensen Subject: Re: I want to instal a "secure" ftp server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:41:11 -0000 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@allantgroup.com