Comments on: How to SCP (Secure Copy) with FileZilla on Windows XP http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp Technical answers for technical questions Fri, 24 May 2013 18:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: alex http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-6694 alex Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:27:54 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-6694 Hello Jacob,

Thanks for the information. Oddly enough I offered to help a friend install a VM server the other day and he had opted to use ESXi Server so I played around with it a bit.

Thanks.
alex

]]> By: alex http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-6693 alex Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:27:06 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-6693 Hello Jacob,

Dropbear is commonly used in other linux distributions as well specifically embedded style Linux. We actually use dropbear on a product we invented at work to monitor senior citizens. I would assume that it could be configured to work in the way that you want it to. If you find the exact solution let us know what it was so others will have a solution as well.

Thanks.
alex

]]> By: Jacob http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-6389 Jacob Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:39:46 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-6389 VMware ESXi Server is a neat platform for virtual machines. Best of all it is free to download and use. Support costs money but that is to be expected. The Windows client that comes with it for admin use is a little clunky when it comes to uploading VMs or other files to it. Using something like WinSCP over the SSH connection(once enabled) is a bit faster way of transferring.

]]> By: Jacob http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-6388 Jacob Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:37:15 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-6388 Actually ESXi Server uses Dropbear for SSH.
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
I have not found a config file for it yet so I am not sure the details on it being possible to enable SFTP on the SSH side of ESXi.

]]> By: alex http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-6375 alex Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:53:05 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-6375 Hello Jacob,

I am not familiar with ESXi Hypervisor so I cannot offer much help there. What I can say is that I have yet to attempt to use FileZilla to connect to SSH and had any issues. I wonder if the default sshd_config file is different for what you are talking about. If you want to share the default sshd_config file I could try to see if I notice anything different from other Linux operating systems?

If you do find a solution we would love to hear what it is.

Thanks.
alex

]]> By: Jacob http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-6363 Jacob Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:22:08 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-6363 Part of the issue for me is that some SSH servers are configured to NOT work with SFTP but does work with SCP. By default when you turn on the SSH server on an ESXi Hypervisor it does NOT work with SFTP. I know this may be an isolated example but I was looking to see if Filezilla could be hacked a bit to work with SCP also or if that was in the works and got this how to. I know that WinSCP does it but I happen to like Filezilla.

]]> By: alex http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-5935 alex Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:16:48 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-5935 Hello George,

Thanks for taking the time to post a response to our article. Many people consider SCP and SFTP to be fairly similar though I see what you are saying and agree they are definitely different. The main point of the article was to explain that you could connect and transfer files using FileZilla to connect to a server that is not running FTP but that is only running SSHD.

Thanks.
alex

]]> By: George Adams http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-5934 George Adams Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:05:08 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-5934 Alex, it’s more than just a difference of semantics and SSH protocol versions. SFTP offers a full FTP-style interface, while SCP does not. (it does not, for example, support listing the remote directory). So unfortunately, “How to SCP with FileZilla” just can’t be done. (For example, I’m trying to transfer a file from Windows to a DD-WRT router via SCP, since SFTP is not supported. FileZilla, which supports only FTP, SFTP and FTPS, just won’t work for that.)

]]> By: alex http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-3551 alex Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:14:28 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-3551 Hello Coagmano,

The article is titled that way on purpose so people looking to use SCP on Windows will actually use SFTP via Filezilla. The goal is to provide people a way to accomplish securely transferring files using Windows and this will be accomplished by using SFTP as described in the article. SCP is noted in the title as that is what some people will use when attempting to transfer the files between computers.

I wasn’t aware that SCP used SSH v1 by default though so thanks for pointing that out.

Thanks.
alex

]]> By: Coagmano http://www.question-defense.com/2009/04/12/how-to-scp-secure-copy-with-filezilla-on-windows-xp#comment-3541 Coagmano Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:10:41 +0000 http://www.question-defense.com/?p=2115#comment-3541 This article is titled wrong…
SFTP and scp are different from each other and should not be used interchangeably.
Please correct your article to reflect this.

Some other info:
Currently SFTP is the superior protocol as it uses ssh v2 where scp uses ssh v1. though on some FTP servers SFTP is slower as it requires more cpu overhead.

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