How to set up a home SFTP server?
 

I want to setup a home SFTP server in order to transfer my files securely. But I don’t know about this anything. My friends told that there are many secure file transfer tool are present in the net. I am unable to find the best one. Please share your experiences with and also give your suggestions
Thanks in advance

Re: How to set up a home SFTP server?
 

hmm, I'm waiting for the spammer answer to this question since the post is from an Indian IP :(

Re: How to set up a home SFTP server?
 

I've seen this on a few forums....

The reply is usually

They then recommend 2 free progs but tell you how difficult, unstable, etc they are... to add validity to their recommendation I think..

Re: How to set up a home SFTP server?
 

Erm... I'd be interested to know the answer to the OP question.

Cambridge (UK) IP. Honest!

Re: How to set up a home SFTP server?
 

Read this article... Honest.

http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/ar...ver-on-windows

Re: How to set up a home SFTP server?
 

sftp can run as a part of OpenSSH on unix machines. In this case it's simply ftp running through a ssh tunnel (or something like that). It will use the standard ssh connection/authentication including sshagent.

there needs to be something like the following in sshd_config
On my Solaris system sshd_config is in /usr/local/etc.

Installing OpenSSH should create the host keys for you, then you just need the client side. On Windoze you can use PuTTY which includes an sftp client. There are small issues with converting keys between PuTTY and OpenSSH but PuTTY includes the tools to do that.

Re: How to set up a home SFTP server?
 

Filezilla works with sftp :) just type sftp://address into the connect box and if needed change the port box to whatever port ssh is listening to

And i think the Sftp server is built into openSSH

example.

you should then get the following in the log as it connects (so you know its trying on sftp)

Basically if it says fzSftp started then its defiantly trying on Sftp :D

You can connect to some webhosts using Sftp as well if you know their SSH port, shouldn't matter if you have shell enabled on your account but it might depend on the host.

Re: How to set up a home SFTP server?
 

Bang on debian, and install openssh-server...