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    What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows

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    • wirestyle22W
      wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
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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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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
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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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        • Emad RE
          Emad R @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller

          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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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Emad R
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            @emad-r said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

            @scottalanmiller

            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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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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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:

              @scottalanmiller

              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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                1337 @JaredBusch
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                @jaredbusch So then it's not in 2012 R2 either?

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @1337
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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

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @1337
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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?

                    Not built in until 2016. But Microsoft made it for 2012 R2, it's just a free Microsoft provided component rather than built in.

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                      @pete-s said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                      @jaredbusch So then it's not in 2012 R2 either?

                      Not built in until 2016. But Microsoft made it for 2012 R2, it's just a free Microsoft provided component rather than built in.

                      Same with Windows 10. It was not built in until 1803. I was an add on from 1703 (I think)

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                      • Emad RE
                        Emad R @scottalanmiller
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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:

                        @scottalanmiller

                        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?

                        Windows has always been platform where third party software were better:

                        AV = ESET is better
                        Media Player = VLC is king
                        Browser= no need to comment
                        Task Manager = Only starting from Win 10 it began usable but process hacker is better
                        File Indexer = Everything
                        File Copy = TeraCopy

                        Prior to Win 10 it gave always the developers the means freely, and they developed stuff better than MS. So that is my philosophy. Besides third party free stuff works usually on all Windows platforms.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Emad R
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                          @emad-r said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                          @scottalanmiller said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                          @emad-r said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                          @scottalanmiller

                          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?

                          Windows has always been platform where third party software were better:

                          You are seriously suggesting that a third party makes an SSH better than OpenSSH?

                          This is the same one used by IBM, Red Hat, Apple, Suse, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, even OpenBSD. You can't really be suggesting that some little unknown SSH implementation is going to compete with the single most agreed upon product in the industry that also happens to be open source?

                          If "I don't trust the software Microsoft chooses" is the sole reason for paying for extra software, that's a really bad process.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @Emad R
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                            @emad-r said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                            AV = ESET is better

                            I've had the misfortune of dealing with ESET and I can tell you, I don't agree with you in the least. We won't even let ESET in the shop, we literally don't trust the company. And it's reliability was terrible compared to Defender. Worst I've ever dealt with.

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