Looking for a new FTP client
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After reading this and the pages it links to, I've decided to look for an FTP client that is developed by people who actually give a shit. So, any recommendations?
Requirements:
- It runs on Windows
- Is not FileZilla
- Is not shit
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I can not guarantee it is not shit, but at least it runs on Windows and is not FileZilla.
Works for me to occasionally connect to SFTP from Windows, but on the site it says it does FTP too.
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@raceprouk Windows explorer (not IE) has FTP support, that meets the first two requirements at least. Not sure on the third. Just enter an ftp:// URL the same way you'd enter a windows file share.
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@adynathos it's not shit either.
I use this daily to do FTP and SFTP.
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@pleegwat
Windows Explorer is shit. And also doesn't support FTPS or SFTP.I second (third?) the recommendation for WinSCP.
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Another vote for WinSCP. Among other things, it lets you seamlessly edit remote files locally and auto-update them when you save.
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@izzion said in Looking for a new FTP client:
@pleegwat
Windows Explorer is shit. And also doesn't support FTPS or SFTP.I second (third?) the recommendation for WinSCP.
- tries
- gets a password prompt
- notices it says winscp in the titlebar
You can say a lot about this place but they make good developer default images.
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@raceprouk WinSCP is kind of shit, but it's the best of a bad lot. Also why are you using plain ol' FTP in 2017? (Thankfully, WinSCP also supports the secure types.)
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@blakeyrat said in Looking for a new FTP client:
Also why are you using plain ol' FTP in 2017?
Because airport parking operators are stuck in 1993, technologically speaking.
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@blakeyrat probably the same reason my lot does: because FileZilla Server exists, is easy to set up and no one has heard of anything better.
The number of people we work with that want us to send them stuff by FTP is also frightening, it's like no ones ever heard of SFTP.
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@arantor said in Looking for a new FTP client:
@blakeyrat probably the same reason my lot does: because FileZilla Server exists, is easy to set up and no one has heard of anything better.
The number of people we work with that want us to send them stuff by FTP is also frightening, it's like no ones ever heard of SFTP.
You can enable SFTP support in FileZilla server
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@arantor said in Looking for a new FTP client:
The number of people we work with that want us to send them stuff by FTP is also frightening, it's like no ones ever heard of SFTP.
Lots of DNA sequencing services are like that. With potentially clinical data.
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@dkf Every bank and insurance company WtfCorp does business with would greatly prefer to do all data transfers via plaintext email or plain FTP.
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@arantor said in Looking for a new FTP client:
probably the same reason my lot does: because
FileZilla Server exists, is easy to set up and no one has heard of anything betterMicro-Soft still doesn't include an SSH service in their Server OS in 2017.FTFY
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@weng Yep. Security is hard. Let's
go shoppingdo business!
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@timebandit yes but it's EFFORT. It's not enabled/configured immediately out of the box.
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@weng we have that, lots of PII via Excel via email.
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@RaceProUK This is actually a pretty decent little FTP addon for Firefox. It's kinda nice if you want something quick and simple, because it'll automatically intercept
ftp://
links, so all you have to do is click a link to one or enter it in the address bar and the addon will automatically load its interface. It does support changing the editor (right-click a file and use "Open with" to get to the file types/editors GUI; you can set an editor for*.*
so that it's available for all file types).https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/fireftp/
WinSCP is also a good FTP client; I use it too.
On another note, I discovered that regardless of what FTP client you're using, Notepad++ works much better as the editor when you tell the client to run it with
-multiInst -nosession
arguments.
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@anotherusername said in Looking for a new FTP client:
This is actually a pretty decent little FTP addon for Firefox
I use Chrome :P
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@raceprouk well phooey to you then. :P
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@raceprouk caused an
E_NOT_HIPSTER_ENOUGH
exception in WTDWTF, line 23395, char 19.Abort? Retry? Fail?
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@izzion said in Looking for a new FTP client:
Abort? Retry? Fail?
Missing option : Ignore All Hipster ?
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@timebandit said in Looking for a new FTP client:
Ignore All Hipster
Does that activate the Cleanly Shaven option?
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@luhmann said in Looking for a new FTP client:
Does that activate the Cleanly Shaven option?
Of course.
Also
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@timebandit said in Looking for a new FTP client:
Micro-Soft still doesn't include an SSH service in their Server OS in 2017.
It does come with RDP, which can be used for that purpose (and is secure/encrypted by default). But yeah, it's kind of a lack.
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@blakeyrat It also has remote management via Enter-PSSession, which is pretty much equivalent to SSH now.
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@timebandit said in Looking for a new FTP client:
@arantor said in Looking for a new FTP client:
probably the same reason my lot does: because
FileZilla Server exists, is easy to set up and no one has heard of anything betterMicro-Soft still doesn't include an SSH service in their Server OS in 2017.FTFY
I'm 99% sure SSH is included in TFS.
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@ben_lubar said in Looking for a new FTP client:
I'm 99% sure SSH is included in TFS.
I've never seen a Windows machine with TFS installed.
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@boomzilla said in Looking for a new FTP client:
@ben_lubar said in Looking for a new FTP client:
I'm 99% sure SSH is included in TFS.
I've never seen a Windows machine with TFS installed.
Doesn't it come with the default VS installation?
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@kt_ Client, yes
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@kt_ said in Looking for a new FTP client:
Doesn't it come with the default VS installation?
I have never seen a Windows machine come with VS installed.
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@boomzilla I don't think that's what "default VS installation" means.
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@lb_ I agree, which is kind of confusing when the topic was that Windows doesn't come with ssh / sftp tools.
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@boomzilla You can install Ubuntu inside Windows 10 without opening a web browser or store app, and that has ssh and (I think) sftp installed by default.
TFS has the ssh server, which is what I thought you meant.
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@ben_lubar Well, both are useful. Yeah, I can see the linux subsystem solving a lot of the problems.