Comments on: SFTP supporing FTP product http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sftp-supporing-ftp-product/ Fri, 24 May 2013 07:13:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: whitecap http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sftp-supporing-ftp-product/#comment-41551 whitecap Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:28:56 +0000 #comment-41551 Give FileZilla a go it is a server and client supports both FTP and SSH. It is open source and thefore free, see the link below:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558

]]> By: petkoa http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sftp-supporing-ftp-product/#comment-41552 petkoa Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:00:27 +0000 #comment-41552 Hi,

I think I might not understand the situation: what do you mean saying “SFTP product that would support FTP without changing out the client software” – do you intend internal users to use SFTP and external – plain FTP? Or external users will have to get SFTP with their old clients (probably FTP-only)?

In fact, I see the first situation as unfeasable, the second one as impossible…

Of coarse, there is a sollution – install some ssh daemon on the server, and smart enough ssh client on client mashines, and do ftp tunneling. The point is that the ssh client should be really smart, i.e., it’ll have to possess an “ftp helper” – FTP protocol is not convenient for ssh-tunneling. One such product is mindterm

http://www.appgate.com/products/80_MindTerm/

it is written in java, and can be used as java-applet from your web site thus solving the problem with software installs on external sites – but isn’t it better to move your FTP site to https? I really believe that it would be the least costly sollution.

BR,

Petko

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