Re: Simple file sharing between FC2 and Mac OS X?

From: James Wilkinson (james_at_westexe.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/18/04

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    David L Norris wrote:
    > SSH should work great but you'd need a real user account on her machine.
    > In Nautilus, don't use ssh:// as it won't prompt for a password and
    > you'll be left with cryptic error messages. I use Nautilus with SFTP to
    > transfer files to/from my laptop, web server, etc.

    D. D. Brierton wrote:
    > Ah, now that really is interesting. One of the things that I've been
    > confused about is whether sftp needs to connect to a machine that has an
    > ftp server running on it, or whether all that needs to be running on the
    > machine you're connecting to is sshd.

    <snip>

    > Excellent. I've used this method to connect to other machines before,
    > but the machines in question always had *both* an ftp server and an ssh
    > server running on them. I know sftp is part of ssh, but I've never been
    > clear on whether all it requires at the other end is an ssh server, an
    > ftp server, or both.

    Um. The term "sftp" is used for two separate technologies. You're using
    the sftp command. That is built in to OpenSSH (and to the commercial
    SSH, I believe), and uses SSH channels. The protocol is inherently
    different to normal FTP, so doesn't use an FTP daemon.

    You can try it: disable your ftp daemon, and sftp connect to localhost.

    You can also get SSL-encrypted FTP: normal FTP, that just happens to have
    SSL encryption. Some companies will refer to this as SFTP.

    James. 

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