File Transfer Protocol client applications let you to transfer files back and forth between your computer and another computer running an FTP server application. The ...

Last week’s README file demonstrated how easy it is to turn virtually any desktop machine into an SFTP server. Today’s piece shows how to automate a well-known Windows open source SFTP client using ...

In the Windows world, WinSCP is a popular SFTP client (SCP and SFTP are both SSH-encrypted file transfer protocols). In addition to these and other dedicated file transfer client programs you can find ...

One of the oldest still-working protocols on the Internet is FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Designed in the net’s earliest days, FTP never concerned itself with security. Later standards addressed this ...

SFTP virtual roots allow system administrators to configure VShell to automatically transfer files to a remote SFTP server. Files uploaded to and downloaded from the SFTP virtual root never touch the ...

I have a 12GB file on one machine (UFS file system), and I need to transfer it to another, same OS, same file system. SFTP halts at exactly 2^31 - 1 bytes into the transfer (the 2GB limit on some file ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

Transmit 5 by Panic takes the hassle out of managing files on a server and locally. For 20 years, Mac users have relied on Transmit for FTP and SFTP file transfers. That remains one of Transmit’s core ...