07-12-2011
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Originally Posted by
pludi
The reason is this: FTP is a protocol of it's own, while SFTP is an addition to SSH. If there's no SSH server running, you won't be able to use SFTP or scp.
thanks can more details what i must search or do?
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psftp(1) PuTTY tool suite psftp(1)
NAME
psftp - interactive SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) client
SYNOPSIS
psftp [options] [user@]host
DESCRIPTION
psftp is an interactive text-based client for the SSH-based SFTP (secure file transfer) protocol.
OPTIONS
The command-line options supported by psftp are:
-V Show version information and exit.
-pgpfp Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys and exit, to aid in verifying new files released by the PuTTY team.
-b batchfile
Use specified batchfile.
-bc Output batchfile commands.
-be Don't stop batchfile processing on errors.
-v Show verbose messages.
-load session
Load settings from saved session.
-P port
Connect to port port.
-l user
Set remote username to user.
-batch Disable interactive prompts.
-pw password
Set remote password to password. CAUTION: this will likely make the password visible to other users of the local machine (via com-
mands such as `w').
-1 Force use of SSH protocol version 1.
-2 Force use of SSH protocol version 2.
-C Enable SSH compression.
-i path
Private key file for authentication.
COMMANDS
For a list of commands available inside psftp, type help at the psftp> prompt.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information on psftp it's probably best to go and look at the manual on the PuTTY web page:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
BUGS
This man page isn't terribly complete. See the above web link for better documentation.
PuTTY tool suite 2004-03-24 psftp(1)