[GLLUG] adding directories to ftp server

[Matt Graham]

On Tuesday 07 October 2003 15:23, after a long battle with technology, 
Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Marshal Newrock <marshal at simons-rock.edu> writes:
>> If you're looking for security, though, your computer already has
>> an sftp server (part of ssh).  The standard command line (on Linux
>> and BSD including OSX) isn't particularly powerful, but there are,
>> of course, front-ends available capable of multiple file transfers.
>>  Free clients are available for Windows too.

Yep.  Google for "WinSCP2".  Very handy; saved me a lot of time on 
several occasions.

>> And if you know exactly what you want to transfer, scp will do in a
>> pinch.
> A third alternative along the same lines is to use the lftp
> client with the fish protocol, which gives you the same abilities
> as normal ftp but over ssh and with the lftp client's nice

Konqueror also does fish.  Put "fish://username@host" into the location 
bar and have a GUI-fied secure file transfer thingy.  It wasn't all 
that fast the last time I tried it, but that may have been because Konq 
was trying to display a directory with 30,000 files in it and the 
remote server was heavily loaded.  (checks) yeah, that must've been it; 
it's plenty fast using fish to browse stuff on my home machine.

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