A Secure File Transfer Protocol session is similar to a File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, session, but with the added security of encryption. When you use SFTP to make a connection to a server that ...

Due to the shortage of IPv4 addresses, and for security reasons, many corporate and home networks use firewalls and network address translations, leading to network scenarios not envisioned by the ...

To transfer files back and forth to CS unix servers from a unix system, use either the scp(non-interactive) or sftp(interactive) commands. Both of these commands will ...

Apple decided to remove the GUI for enabling and disabling FTP from Mac OS X Lion. Generally speaking, that's not a bad move, because most times SFTP is available anywhere FTP is, and SFTP is far ...

Public key authentication with SSH is possible with WinSCP, but it requires some work to set up. Chad Perrin details the steps. WinSCP is an open source tool for Windows that allows files to be safely ...

Using it, you can specify how particular services are run in much the same manner you would have made changes in the inetd.conf file on older versions of Solaris. To add logging to your ftp service, ...

The ability to access and manage files remotely is more than a convenience—it’s a necessity. Google Drive, a widely used ...