What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
What reason is there to ever need to use SFTP? We use it here and I don't understand why when dropbox and nextcloud exist. Maybe I'm missing something
Isn't SFTP just SSH?
Sorry, I mean specifically for file transfer via something like FileZilla. Seems super outdated.
Ah, I guess it depends on the use case? I use SCP/SFTP regularly to move files back and forth between servers and my workstation if need be.
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I have clients that send and receive backend data via SFTP.
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I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?
Since it's just SSH it's installed on literally every Linux box in the world by default.
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?
It is poitn to point and does not need a third party service.. Drop box and the like are sync services with some sharing capabilities.
THey are not file transfer services.
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I'd much rather use Nextcloud than SFTP personally, but that is for a few different reasons. We are almost entirely Windows here, even though @coliver made a good point. Also, I have to transfer files to people who have never used SFTP and generally don't get it. Installing a client and changing port numbers is beyond some of the people that require the data. It would be so much more conducive to just provide a link with a password and expiration date. Idk.
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@jaredbusch said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
Idk.
Obviously.
This isn't the time for foreplay Jared
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@jaredbusch said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
Idk.
Obviously.
This isn't the time for foreplay Jared
You were clearly told the difference between those tools. Just because you cannot understand, does not invalidate the difference.
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@jaredbusch said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@jaredbusch said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
Idk.
Obviously.
This isn't the time for foreplay Jared
You were clearly told the difference between those tools. Just because you cannot understand, does not invalidate the difference.
I understand the difference between the tools. I commented on why I would want to use Nextcloud over it for my specific use-case.
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?
Universal, direct, secure.
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I'd much rather use Nextcloud than SFTP personally, but that is for a few different reasons. We are almost entirely Windows here, even though @coliver made a good point. Also, I have to transfer files to people who have never used FTP and generally don't get it. Installing a client and changing port numbers is beyond some of the people that require the data. It would be so much more conducive to just provide a link with a password and expiration date. Idk.
FTP is not related to SFTP. Totally different things.
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
Also, I have to transfer files to people who have never used FTP and generally don't get it. Installing a client and changing port numbers is beyond some of the people that require the data. It would be so much more conducive to just provide a link with a password and expiration date. Idk.
No client needed. No port stuff needed. And not at all related to the question.
It's like asking what's the best way to fix and car and the answer being "I'd rather just eat dinner."
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@scottalanmiller said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I'd much rather use Nextcloud than SFTP personally, but that is for a few different reasons. We are almost entirely Windows here, even though @coliver made a good point. Also, I have to transfer files to people who have never used FTP and generally don't get it. Installing a client and changing port numbers is beyond some of the people that require the data. It would be so much more conducive to just provide a link with a password and expiration date. Idk.
FTP is not related to SFTP. Totally different things.
It's a typo.
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@scottalanmiller said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I'd much rather use Nextcloud than SFTP personally, but that is for a few different reasons. We are almost entirely Windows here, even though @coliver made a good point. Also, I have to transfer files to people who have never used FTP and generally don't get it. Installing a client and changing port numbers is beyond some of the people that require the data. It would be so much more conducive to just provide a link with a password and expiration date. Idk.
FTP is not related to SFTP. Totally different things.
It's a typo.
But your info on ports, clients, etc. are based around the typo. Your description doesn't fit with SFTP.
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http://www.freesshd.com/?ctt=download
freeFTPd
freeFTPd is a FTP/FTPS/SFTP server that enables user to access remote files over TCP/IP network such as Internet. Unlike FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols provide security and strong encryption of data - great for insecure network.
Very easy and works well.
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@emad-r said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
http://www.freesshd.com/?ctt=download
freeFTPd
freeFTPd is a FTP/FTPS/SFTP server that enables user to access remote files over TCP/IP network such as Internet. Unlike FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols provide security and strong encryption of data - great for insecure network.
Very easy and works well.
What about freeFTPd do you feel is nicer than the one built into Windows, which is the same one from Linux?
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@scottalanmiller said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@emad-r said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
http://www.freesshd.com/?ctt=download
freeFTPd
freeFTPd is a FTP/FTPS/SFTP server that enables user to access remote files over TCP/IP network such as Internet. Unlike FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols provide security and strong encryption of data - great for insecure network.
Very easy and works well.
What about freeFTPd do you feel is nicer than the one built into Windows, which is the same one from Linux?
Nothing has been built into Windows until this year.
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@jaredbusch So then it's not in 2012 R2 either?
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@pete-s said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@jaredbusch So then it's not in 2012 R2 either?
Built in? Not to my knowledge. OpenSSH on Widows was not around when 2012 R2 was released
