[macosx-unix] looking for mac-winscp

Brad Schonhorst bschonhorst at vcsnyc.org
Wed Mar 15 12:13:28 EST 2006


On Mar 15, 2006, at 11:29 AM, George Georgalis wrote:

> Has anyone here used winscp? It is quite a bit more than the
> openssh scp command.
>
> Anyway, we (here at $WORK) are looking to turn off the Samba
> protocol entirely on the local network.  While the workstations
> here are mostly M$, there is a plan to switch over to Mac; but for
> the time being, mine is one of two computers running Mac.
>
> In the past, I've setup the apple file share protocol (nettalk
> I think it's called) but I'd prefer not starting a new service
> just as another is being taken down. NFS is not an option as more
> authentication is needed than that provides.
>
> So in a nutshell, winscp is a perfect solution but it doesn't run
> on Mac, as far as I can tell. Is anybody using something similar
> to get authenticated, browsable, gui file sharing? I'm happy to
> use command line or the finder to access the files, but command
> line scp is not enough, I need a mounted filesystem or virtually
> that.
>
>

Hey George-

I am not sure I understand exactly what you are looking for but if  
its a GUI frontend to run on a mac for ssh/scp then fugu might be  
worth trying:

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/


-brad

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Brad Schonhorst
Network Administrator
Village Community School




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