Re: Looking for Recommendations

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/27/04


Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:56:27 -0500

D wrote:
> I have LINUX box sitting outside our internal lan and files will be
> written to a specific folder on an ongoing basis. The FTP uses SSH
> technoligy as this contains "sensitive" data. I need a client that
> I can call from Windoze, that can connect to the selected LINUX
> folder and get ALL the files that are presently in that directory.
> - There is no file naming conventions ( i.e. there may be 0 to 1000
> files with all completly different file names)
>
> I tried PSFTP but there is no Wildcard expansion. I thought once
> connected to the FTP folder I could do a DIR or LS and send the
> output back to my Windoze box. Then I could create a batch file to
> get all the files individually instead of using wildcards. But I
> couldn't get the output back to the windows box. Any idea on how to
> accomplish that ?
>
> I hope some of this makes sense and any help is greatly appreciated.

Yes. This is not a suitable SFTP task, without a chroot cage to control user
access. I'd strongly urge you to look into using WebDAV with HTTPS, which is
built into Win2K and WinXP, or consider using "rsync -e ssh" and installing
CygWin to get a usable version of rsync.



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