RE: FTP over SSH

You can do regular FTP over SSH, but the ftp client must do it in PASV mode,
not the usual PORT mode if there are firewalls in between. Yes you can SFTP
to a SSH server, but it cannot talk to a normal FTP server, as it is not
really a FTP client.

The following is what tested successfully with PuTTY, CuteFTP on a local
machine and Cygwin SSHD on a remote Win2k server between two firewalled
LANS:

1. start PLINK as an ssh tunnel (plink.exe is a PuTTY executible for ssh
tunnelling):

$ plink -ssh -pw remote_host_password remote_host_user@remote_host_ip -L
21:127.0.0.1:21 -R 21:remote_host_ip:21

2. start CuteFTP by entering at its GUI:
  host_ip: 127.0.0.1:21
  username: remote_host_user@local_firewall_user@remote_host_ip
  password: remote_host_password@local_firewall_password

Also make sure the remote W2K machine has turned on FTP server (which is
under IIS). The Cygwin SSHD is running on the W2K box too.

I picked cuteFTP because it supports FTP PASV mode.

This also works with a remote AIX that runs OpenSSHd.

But running sftp will be more straight-forward. I heard WinSCP is a GUI
client that runs on Windows.

Teng
  

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Yantifovich [mailto:alex@b-swing.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:06 PM
To: Ssh-L@Erdelynet. Com
Subject: FTP over SSH

is it possible to FTP over SSH?
are there special tricks to it or, do i just connect with my sftp client to
ssh server IP?

alex@b-swing.com

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