What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows
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@scottalanmiller said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@scottalanmiller said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I'm installing the OpenSSH-Win32 SFTP server and it leaves a lot to be desired. To be fair SFTP leaves a lot to be desired but still this is not a great implementation.
What do you want from SFTP that it does not provide?
Configurable home directories is the biggest one. This may be a function of the operating system (don't ask) but that can be configured with a *nix box.
SFTP is just a protocol. What protocol doesn't lack the ability to configure home directories?
That's fine, I was thinking of the software itself. Hence the mentioning of the SFTP server included in this package. Comparing it to other SFTP servers on other platforms it doesn't do as much as I expected.
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@coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@scottalanmiller said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@scottalanmiller said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I'm installing the OpenSSH-Win32 SFTP server and it leaves a lot to be desired. To be fair SFTP leaves a lot to be desired but still this is not a great implementation.
What do you want from SFTP that it does not provide?
Configurable home directories is the biggest one. This may be a function of the operating system (don't ask) but that can be configured with a *nix box.
SFTP is just a protocol. What protocol doesn't lack the ability to configure home directories?
That's fine, I was thinking of the software itself. Hence the mentioning of the SFTP server included in this package. Comparing it to other SFTP servers on other platforms it doesn't do as much as I expected.
I haven't tested it that thoroughly, but what is different? It's literally the same SFTP as is on all other platforms, it's the reference implementation, just ported. AFAIK, it's identical.
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I was trying to understand what features might be missing as well? to be SFTP, doesn't it have to follow the RFCs regardless of platform?
Perhaps you mean it doesn't have a good logging interface like another system might? or something along those lines, more an admin desire, less a function of the SFTP protocol.
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@Dashrender said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I was trying to understand what features might be missing as well? to be SFTP, doesn't it have to follow the RFCs regardless of platform?
Correct. Should be identical at the SFTP level. Especially as it's not just SFTP, but the same SFTP.
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@bobbb127
No, shame on you.
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@bobbb127 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
This is an old thread, but I wanted to chime in here and suggest Titan FTP Server since it's somewhat unclear if the OP actually chose something. Titan supports SFTP (and many other protocols) and is affordable and stable. Been using it for years now without any problem
How would something like that justify being one penny more than "free"? As a third party product trying to reproduce functionality that is both native to the OS and open source, it would need to pay me (literally) to be "affordable" in the context. Even at free, it would be pretty impossible to consider it a "good value."
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@bobbb127 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
... since it's somewhat unclear if the OP actually chose something.
This was the quote: "None, use Linux where SFTP is native and built in and configured for you right out of the box, ready to go, for free. This is a silly question. People need to stop asking it." Seems pretty clear what was chosen.
Now, in the time since then, OpenSSH (the same one used on Linux) has been integrated into Windows. So things have changed. Windows, if you already have it, running OpenSSH is just fine. Two years ago, it was not.
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@bobbb127 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
This is an old thread, but I wanted to chime in here and suggest Titan FTP Server since it's somewhat unclear if the OP actually chose something. Titan supports SFTP (and many other protocols) and is affordable and stable. Been using it for years now without any problem
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@dafyre Oh I love your MTG reference!
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What reason is there to ever need to use SFTP? We use it here and I don't understand why when dropbox and nextcloud exist. Maybe I'm missing something
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
What reason is there to ever need to use SFTP? We use it here and I don't understand why when dropbox and nextcloud exist. Maybe I'm missing something
Isn't SFTP just SSH?
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@coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
What reason is there to ever need to use SFTP? We use it here and I don't understand why when dropbox and nextcloud exist. Maybe I'm missing something
Isn't SFTP just SSH?
Sorry, I mean specifically for file transfer via something like FileZilla. Seems super outdated.
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
What reason is there to ever need to use SFTP? We use it here and I don't understand why when dropbox and nextcloud exist. Maybe I'm missing something
Isn't SFTP just SSH?
Sorry, I mean specifically for file transfer via something like FileZilla. Seems super outdated.
Ah, I guess it depends on the use case? I use SCP/SFTP regularly to move files back and forth between servers and my workstation if need be.
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I have clients that send and receive backend data via SFTP.
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I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?
Since it's just SSH it's installed on literally every Linux box in the world by default.
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@wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:
I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?
It is poitn to point and does not need a third party service.. Drop box and the like are sync services with some sharing capabilities.
THey are not file transfer services.
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I'd much rather use Nextcloud than SFTP personally, but that is for a few different reasons. We are almost entirely Windows here, even though @coliver made a good point. Also, I have to transfer files to people who have never used SFTP and generally don't get it. Installing a client and changing port numbers is beyond some of the people that require the data. It would be so much more conducive to just provide a link with a password and expiration date. Idk.
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