secure FTP ?

[rh71]

what's the secure solution for FTP ? What do companies generally use ? Is it SSH ? More details please ?

How would one go about setting it up ... say for a small business and they have people outside of work uploading to their servers ?

 

[JackMDS]

There is so mnay options that there is No point to try to list them.

Most ftp server/client support few methods.

You can start by Google for the term SFTP (Secure FTP).

:sun:

 

[skyking]

SSH/SFTP is what I would suggest.

 

[Zugzwang152]

We use SSH Secure Shell here, but you need to purchase licenses for business use.

FileZilla is an open source solution which supports SSL on the client side, although their server version does not yet support it.

 

[skyking]

Putty is free.

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: How to install a ssh server.

:sun:

 

[halfadder]

SCP/SFTP in Mac OS X since the original public beta! 🙂

As the others have mentioned, there are gobs of Windows implementations of SSH/SCP/SFTP, some are free some are commercial. Download a few and give them a whirl.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
We use SSH Secure Shell here, but you need to purchase licenses for business use.

FileZilla is an open source solution which supports SSL on the client side, although their server version does not yet support it.

Only if you use the inferior SSH.com SSH. If you use the industry standard OpenSSH SSH you don't have to pay anything.

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
We use SSH Secure Shell here, but you need to purchase licenses for business use.

FileZilla is an open source solution which supports SSL on the client side, although their server version does not yet support it.

We use the same. It's an easy program for the end user but does come with a cost.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Oh yeah, WinSCP is a free scp gui client for windows that works fine with OpenSSH. I haven't tried it with lesser SSH servers.