Comments | cepheidorg: Using FTP

isancho in cepheidorg

Using FTP

Dec 20, 2007 00:24

Cepheid.org does not support FTP anymore. SFTP is supported, which uses the SSH protocol to encrypt your login and password, keeping them safe.

Common, free SFTP clients for Windows include Filezilla and WinSCP. They need to be set to use SFTP over port 22 (SSH).

Some people are having problems with using SFTP. An explanation follows:

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sleary December 20 2007, 19:55:36 UTC

For Dreamweaver people: DW's protocol choices are a little unintuitive. Using the FTP protocol and checking the "secure" box actually does invoke SFTP (not some weird variant of original-flavor FTP), and it works just dandy.

For Mac people: I recommend Transmit.

isancho December 20 2007, 20:13:01 UTC

Thanks for the pointers! That's horribly unintuitive for Dreamweaver, but I can't complain too much. The difference between SFTP and FTPS is significant, but it's commonly hard to remember which is which, and many people who care about such things don't even realize that there's a difference.