A user can use the same SFTP client to access Linux, UNIX, Windows
machines, and can run a client from Linux, UNIX or Windows machines.
SFTP uses a standardized protocol.
There is the difference between mounting a remote volume and doing a
file transfer.
Say I'm sitting in a hotel in Beijing and want to transfer a file from
MSU onto a colleague's laptop is the VPN going to work?
Flexibility is good, IMO.
-Tom
Chris Wolf wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, why use FTP at all? We have users access
> Windows shares from off-campus by using MSU's VPN. Wouldn't that take
> care of most of your needs?
>
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> *From:* MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> *On Behalf Of *Ehren Benson
> *Sent:* Friday, October 12, 2007 3:33 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* [MSUNAG] Creative SFTP solutions on windows IIS
>
> Windows folks:
>
> We used to run FTP for users to access their files in their home
> directories from either out of the building using our RRAS vpn or on
> those older systems (NT-98) that don’t directly access them through
> shares. However recently we have disabled that because of the very
> unsecure nature of FTP. We would like to provide SFTP functionality as
> people tend to not like that we took regular FTP away.
>
> I found a free solution from freeftpd.com but I would like it to be
> integrated with IIS but I just don’t know if that’s possible…whereas
> for websites you can enable SSL, you can’t for FTP sites. I even just
> installed IIS7 on the test box I have with WinServer2008 RC0 and it
> seems that all web services have been updated in IIS7…however if you
> want to use FTP services it dumps you back into its IIS6 console with
> all the same options…so much for the hope they would have updated that…
>
> Any creative ideas/options anyone else has implemented?
>
> Ehren J. Benson, MCSE
>
> *Windows Systems Administrator*
>
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
>
> Michigan State University
>
> 1209 A Biomed Phys Sci
>
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>
> 517-355-9200 x2569
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