How to set up a home SFTP server?
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Saturday, February 2, 2008 1:10 AM
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
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Saturday, February 2, 2008 9:18 AM ✅Answered
Check out FileZilla it supports S-FTP, FTP over SSL and classic FTP.
Saturday, February 2, 2008 9:22 AM ✅Answered
SFTP doesn't come with IIS, so you'll need a seperate program that runs as a service to handle SFTP requests.
I've used 3 different ones in the past, with different success. All there are full SSH servers, meaning you get SFTP, SCP, Secure remote console (like Telnet) and secure TCP/IP for port tunnelling. I use it to securely connect to my machines and run VNC for remote control. It's the fastest and most secure way I've found to do remote control of my machines.
My favorite is WinSSHD from BitVise. 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.
Next is FreeSSHd. As the name implies, it's free! I've used it on computers that I only need to connect to occationally. It's a harder to understand and configure. I've also had problems where it would stop working and only a reboot would fix.
Last is CygWin. It's a DLL and set of programs that basically turn your Windows system into Linux. If you're a *nix person, this may be the way to go. I found it difficult to set up and configure the SSH server in CygWin, but once I got it running everything worked fine. Oh, it's free!
Hope this helps
Saturday, February 2, 2008 11:50 AM ✅Answered
hi
read this article
http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1487/setting-up-a-sftp-server-on-windows
Saturday, February 2, 2008 2:12 PM ✅Answered
I'll second WinSSHD, it's pretty easy to configure. FreeSSHD is pretty convoluted, and I've never had it stop working but I had it drop connections. If you're going to run CygWin, just run a Linux box instead, it's a lot less prone to hiccups.
The key to SFTP is getting SSH on Windows, and the OpenSSH for Windows project is a good way to go. Filezilla as a client works great with this, though you have to pay attention to NTFS security since Windows deosn't do CHROOT.
The other option is FTPS, included in FTP 7 for Windows. A lot easier to manage, though it's not SFTP if that is a requirement. Also you need IIS 7, so Vista or Server 2008.
Jeff
Monday, February 4, 2008 12:42 AM ✅Answered
Hi, it is very easy to set up a home SFTP server. There are many companies which can provide you this service one among them which I am using at present is www.anyclient.com Secure FTP Server.It has so many new features like no need of software installation. It provides you a downloadable application that you can install locally. And the most important in all is it is providing a free platform independent FTP. Hope my suggestion is surely beneficial for you.
Saturday, February 2, 2008 10:36 AM
I retract my statement FileZilla FTPserver supports SFTP. The 'client' does, the server appears to only support FTP over SSL.
Monday, April 13, 2009 12:23 AM
You might want to look at CompleteFTP, which is a very reasonably priced SFTP server for Windows. It also supports FTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL).
Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:29 AM
I was looking for an SFTP server today for occasional use on our servers. I've tried several servers in the past and was looking for something that would integrate with our domain credentials logins and not require much configuration or baby sitting. I followed the link and have been working quite happily so far with the KpyM Telnet/SSH Server from kpym.com. It doesn't do public key based login (as far as I can tell) but it is simple to manage and integrates with the native Windows authentication so I can do local or domain based logins. As a bonus, it includes an ssh server. It's free and open source, but does come with a nag screen displayed on ssh login. (If you want to support the project, you can register for a license key for $35 to make it go away.)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 11:59 PM
We've been using Cerberus FTP Server on several file servers for years and have been very happy with it. It integrates easily with Active Directory and LDAP (we have need to authenticate against both) and it supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS. The SFTP support is a new addition but it works great. It also has simple user and group account options if you don't need Active Directory or LDAP authentication.
You can download the latest version from their website at http://www.cerberusftp.com
Sunday, May 23, 2010 9:54 PM
Look into using JSCAPE Secure FTP Server.
http://www.jscape.com/secureftpserver/index.html
Monday, May 24, 2010 8:11 PM
I checked all the messages... however, I am still not sure. I have a task to enable SFTP service enable under Windows2008 and/or Windows2008 R2 with IIS. According to all of your messages, if I want to enable under Windows env., I have to install any compornent such as WinSSHD? Another site said IIS7.0 supports SFTP.... I am now kinda confused... please let me know more detailed...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:07 PM
IIS does not support SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol). If you want to add SFTP support you are going to have to go with a third-party solution like Cerberus FTP Server, JScape, WinSSHD or one of the other SFTP-capable servers listed above. Regards, Alan
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 4:38 AM
Alan, Thanx for your help! I will find out the third party app.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:49 PM
Happy I could help!
Friday, August 6, 2010 11:32 PM
Here is an article using WinSCP
Monday, February 7, 2011 8:22 AM
IIS 7 supports FTPES (FTP through Explicit TLS/SSL), but not SFTP. FTPES is another secure protocol. You can use it with FileZilla client.