How to set up a home SFTP server?

[sydneymoon]

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

[MovedGoalPosts]

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

[Stig]

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

The reply is usually

I've used 3 different ones in the past, blah blah.

My favorite is ##### from ####. A personal license will run you $39.95, but it's well worth it. It's the easiest to set up and maintain. Rock solid. blah blah blah...

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

[TheNorm]

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

Cambridge (UK) IP. Honest!

[Stig]

Originally Posted by TheNorm

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

Cambridge (UK) IP. Honest!

Read this article... Honest.

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

[tweetiepooh]

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

Subsystem     sftp    /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server

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.

[dragon]

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)

Status: Connecting to 192.168.1.100:22...
Response: fzSftp started
Command: open "dragon@192.168.1.100" 22
Command: Pass: ******************
Status: Connected to 192.168.1.100
Status: Retrieving directory listing...
Command: pwd
Response: Current directory is: "/home/dragon"
Command: ls
Status: Listing directory /home/dragon
Status: Directory listing successful

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

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.

[eth01]

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