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FYI – Some people may be
interested in the following summary of remote access clients available for secure
FTP file servers - i.e. Windows IIS7.5 FTPS server included with Windows 2008
server R2. My apologies to the others who would prefer fewer (and
smaller) emails.
Laurence Bates
From: Laurence Bates
[mailto:
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
12:48 PM
To: 'Dave Dai'; 'Charles C
Ruggiero'; '
Cc:
Subject: FTPS Client Access to IIS
v7.5
I would like your feedback on some options for off-campus
file storage access. As you know, I spent some time recently looking at
different file servers and clients for remote file access and concluded that
Microsoft’s IIS7/FTPS
offers the greatest degree of reliability, security, economy and convenience on
the server side. I have continued to research the FTPS clients that work
with IIS7 and it
appears that there are a range of good clients for both Mac and Windows users
to choose from and even one for the iPad. I especially like Netdrive for
Windows, and Transmit for Mac since they mount the remote file server as a
drive. On the other hand, 3D-FTP
does a nice job of controlling one or two way synchronization and CuteFTP is
cheap for academic use. Gladinet’s Cloud Desktop Pro provides an
insight into where these clients are going and has an impressive list of Cloud
services that it can access.
I have arranged the clients below in the order that I
preferred them but your sense of user requirements may be different.
There are costs associated with almost all of them and so at some stage we may
need to consider a budget request to cover the cost of obtaining licenses at
lower overall costs.
You can connect to edfs.educ.msu.edu with your educ id and
password. Select FTPES or FTP over explicit TLS/SSL using port 21.
You should also select FTP Passive mode since that appears to be the only mode
which works from off-campus.
FTPS Client Access to IIS v7.5
Windows Clients
1) Macrodata Netdrive - http://www.netdrive.net - $7 Q100 (academic) – Free for non-commercial,
home use.
2) 3D-FTP - http://www.3dftp.com/ - $24.90 Q100 –
nice sync function - $3990
3) CuteFTP (Pro) - http://www.cuteftp.com - $3.00 Academic License
4) Cloudberry Explorer – http://cloudberrylab.com
- $39.99 Q1
5) SmartFTP (Pro) - http://www.smartftp.com/
- $29.95 Q100 - Windows
6) Glubtech Secure FTP Client - http://www.glub.com - $30 Q1
7) FlashFXP - http://www.flashfxp.com - $28.45 Q1 – Only Partial drag and drop
from desktop
8) WS FTP Pro - $78 Q2 – Required a reboot after install
9) BitKinex - http://www.bitkinex.com/ - Freeware –
Too Slow and Complex
10)
FTP Commander Delux – http://www.internet-soft.com - $49.95 Q1 – Too
BUGGY
11) WISE-FTP - http://www.wise-ftp.com - $20 Q100 - Does not work with IIS7.5
12) Gladinet
Cloud Desktop Pro - http://www.gladinet.com
- $19.99 Academic – Neither the
free or Pro version work
with IIS7.5
Nice list of Cloud services that
it works with.
13) ALFTP - http://www.altools.com - $6.00 Q100 - Does not work with IIS7.5
14)
Null FTP Client - http://www.vwsolutions.com - Does not work with
IIS7.5
15) InstantSync™
Secure FTPS/SFTP - http://www.3dftp.com/purchase.htm
- Maker of 3D-FTP - $99
16) FTPVoyager (from Serv-U people) -
$39.95 Q100 Failed
17) CoffeeCup Direct FTP - https://www.coffeecup.com - $12.00 Q
50-249 - 7 Day Trial - VERY BUGGY
iPad Clients
1)
FTP on the go Pro - $9.99
2)
Avatron Air Sharing HD - $9.99 - Does not work with IIS7.5
3)
Uploader - $0.99
– Simple file uploader – could not
get this to work.
Mac OS/X Clients
1) Transmit
– http://www.panic.com - $23 Q100 – Mounts as a drive – includes sync
2) CutefTP –
cuteftp.com - $3.00
Academic License
3) Fetch FTP
– fetchsoftworks.com
- $18 Q100
4) YummyFTP
– Yummysoftware.com - $28 Q1
5) FileZilla
– sourceforge.net – free
6) Captain FTP
– captainftp.xdsnet.de -
$34.01 Q1 thru 99
7) Cyberduck - - cyberduck.ch
- Open Source
8) Twin FTP
– apps4mac.com - $30 Q100 – Backup Software
9) Flow FTP
– extendmac.com - $25 Q1 - Does
not work with IIS7.5
10)
Classic FTP –
nchsoftware.com - $24.99 Q1 - Does not
work with IIS7.5
11)
CrossFTP Pro – cdrossftp.com
- $12.50 Q100 – Requires Java 1.6 – messy install
12)
WebDrive – www.fastspring.com - $18 Q100 –
requires MacFuse – double install – Crashed
13)
Expandrive – expandrive.com
- $35 Q10 – Failed to Connect
14)
Interarchy - $16 Q10 – no
FTPS
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Fetch
supports using FTP with TLS/SSL (also known as FTPS) to connect securely to
servers.
When you
connect to a server using FTP with TLS/SSL, encryption is used to protect the
connection between your Macintosh and the server. This protects your password
and optionally your data, preventing an eavesdropper from capturing or stealing
them as they travel over the network. TLS stands for "Transport Layer
Security," and SSL stands for "Secure Sockets Layer." TLS is a
newer version of the SSL protocol.
There are
three different methods of establishing FTP with TLS/SSL connections; Fetch
only supports two of them. The two supported methods are:
The third
method, "AUTH SSL," is also no longer encouraged and is not supported
by Fetch.
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Please be aware that implicit FTPS and explicit FTPS/FTPES are two
different modes of operation for FTPS and, to the best of my knowledge, the
implicit mode is deprecated in favor of the explicit mode that is more narrowly
referred to as FTPES, versus FTPS that could imply either mode if not verbosely
clarified. When configuring the FTP client software, such as FileZilla, please
verify to ensure that it is setup to connect using "FTPES - FTP over explicit TLS/SSL".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_FTP_client_software
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