UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

Using command-line utility "ftp or sftp", I want to transfer files across Windows and UNIX.

Can you please tell me from where I need to connect to ftp and how do I specify the hostname, credentials and how do I get and put files between DOS and UNIX?

Please provide me as much information as possible, thank you.

Transfer files from which, to which?

DOS doesn't have networking, windows CMD isn't DOS.

You may just want to use a FTP client. FileZilla is free and available on most platforms.

if you find ftp on all unix, you cant say the same for DOS/Windows...Is there a ftp client on the DOS side?

download and install an FTP/SFTP client. For SFTP you will need OpenSSH installed.
not sure about windows 7, hopefully they have integrated a secure file transfer protocol, what ever that may be.
-x

I use Filezilla all the time to transfer files from Unix to Windows (runs on Win7 no problem). Simple and easy to use.
Another way...not using FTP would be to mount a windows share in Unix. You don't need Samba for this, so again...nice and simple.

Hi All,

Thanks a lot for your comments.

I'm trying to connect to UNIX Server from DOS using ftp command-line utility as given below,

C:\ftp
ftp>
ftp> open hostname.com 22
Connected to hostname.com.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3
Connection closed by remote host.

I get this error saying "Connection closed by remote host.", I'm able to connect using the GUI utility "WinSCP", this works well.

What could be there problem here? Thank you.