[svlug] Best FTP Server

[Anthony Ettinger]

On 3/9/06, lordSauron <lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/9/06, Anthony Ettinger <aettinger at sdsualumni.org> wrote:
> > proftpd, although why anyone is running ftp anymore is beyond me. use scp
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> Pardon my French, but what on earth is SCP?
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"secure copy", copies files remotely via ssh vs. over ftp. There are a
lot of gui's for this as well, gftp, filezilla.sf.net (win32), that
will use scp over ssh2 (and/or sftp). I'm not sure what the difference
is between scp and sftp, all I know is I don't need an ftp server to
use sftp.

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