Re: FTPS questions ....

From: Dimitri Maziuk (dima_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 10/28/03 

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:39:14 +0000 (UTC)

Peter sez:

... I tried to go to
> root (C:) dir by 'cd ..' or 'cdup', but it didn't work

Many ftp servers won't let you cdup from login directory.

> 220 system2 Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
> Name (system2:none): administrator
> 500 'AUTH TLS': command not understood
> 500 'AUTH SSL': command not understood
> TLS/SSL not available

Microsoft FTP server does not support SSL...

> 220 SurgeFTP corp (Version 2.2j8)
> Name (localhost:none): loginname
> 234 Enabling SSL

...whereas this one does.

> The problem in the msg is that it said "Remote system type is UNIX.", while
> my machine is running on W2K (but I have cygwin installed as mentioned
> above).

Cygwin provides unix-like environemt on winders. Programs running in
cygwin think they run on unix.

> BTW, wer are searching around of a good secure ftp program (freeware)
> supporting SSL, is ftps the best one?

FTPS is not a program. It's a protocol that adds ssl encryption and
authentication to plain old ftp.

There are alternatives, e.g. scp command that comes with ssh, but
they are not ftp.

If you want ftp with encryption, ftps is the only option. If you are
looking for a way to transfer encrypted files, there are plenty of
options (e.g. you can encrypt it with pgp and attach it to e-mail.)

> Any other suggestions?

Yes: apart from the reference to scp/ssh, none of the above has anything
to do with comp.security.ssh.

Dima 

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