On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:40:28 John Moylan wrote:
> I have just spent the bast part of a day hardening a Linux box that will
> be used as an SFTP or an SCP server to replace notoriously insecure FTP.
> I now have one small problem though. Any of the free Windows clients that
> I have tested are crud. The only half way decent one is winSCP which is
> closed source shareware from .cz .
> Has anyone else implemented such a solution using free windows clients?
> if so what did you use? Any views on WinSCP? I can't really expect
> windows people to use putty's scp/sftp clients because they are CLI only.
Secure Ixplorer (www.i-tree.org) is pretty useful. It uses putty tools in
the background. There's no way to save passwords with a host profile, but
you can configure it to use RSA keypairs to log on.
Martin.
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