This excellent application is one of the few things that is stopping me from migrating entirely to Linux. It there any chance that the writer, or another interested party, could port it to Linux? Obviously a name change would be required

Sorry, there's no chance for that.
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Martin Prikryl

Any reason why?

Time?
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Martin Prikryl

I agree that WinSCP is wonderful and does work under WINE.
In Linux I use Krusader which works great

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Martin Prikryl

For Linux, there is an application called "secpanel" (see http://secpanel.net/ ). I had trouble to run it under wine, but disabling netapi32.dll got it to work.

Sorry, I meant that I had to disable netapi32.dll for WinSCP, not for secpanel.

the problem is you can't do file transfer with SecPanel - ok it opens a shell window, but it's not easy to use as WinSCP

anyway, congratulations on having WinSCP running fine on Wine - it's rare a ms-windows version of an application running so fine on Wine

in my oppinion, Wine compatibility is a kind of quality certification of ms-windows application versions - and of course, WinSCP is there!

I guess it would be out of the question to request a version for the Mac then huh?

This application is so useful to me and my day job, that I keep a virtual machine with XP on it for the sole purpose of running WinSCP! Thanks so much for a great app.

Really Superb. Thanks Willem

If you use KDE, Konqueror (the file manager) can be used to access remote servers using the fish protocol. Fish (FIles transferred over SHell)is a protocol that uses SSH or RSH to transfer files between computers and to manage remote files.

How: In Konqueror where current directory is listed type:
fish://{username}@{server-name}/{path-on-remote-server}

Hi Martin,

I meant to add my thanks for WinSCP to my comments above. I have used your program for several years and it has made my work easier.

Thanks again!

Hey all, why don't you use simple add-on of mozilla firefox called fireFTP.
Just go to tools addons, search-->Fireftp,--> Install and then enjoy.
This can be a good alternative to excellent software in winSCP.

use wine

Whenever I use my Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop partition I use sftp in Nautilus:

1. If the address bar is not showing, press the icon that looks like a pencil and piece of paper. This will display the address bar (editable textbox).

2. In the address bar, enter: sftp://server.com or sftp://ip_address.

3. Enter your username and password.

I emphatically wave my hand in support of a native linux port for winscp (would also be an easy port to OS X as its BSD which is similar to linux).

This would make life a lot better.

No thanks, on running on WINE as I don't allow winapi on SECURE Linux OS. May as well run win and invite the virus and other crap to tag along. No thanks.

Martin - thanks for WinSCP, a great tool at any price.

I'm the IT guy for a small office on a univ. campus -- supporting two dozen Wintel users who have used a Samba fileserver for years, since before my time, and are very comfortable with WinSCP for remote access to their shared filesystem using home PCs. (This says quite a bit for the quality of WinSCP, by the way.) I have a good chance of introducing some of them to Ubuntu using some old laptops -- if I can give them a WinSCP-like GUI for SCP access to the fileserver, hopefully including drag & drop file actions. I don't think anything that's been mentioned is really able to come up to the level of WinSCP in terms of ease of use -- I haven't tried some of these in years, and will do so again, but I'd like to encourage you to think about this a bit. A LinSCP is not a ridiculous idea, exactly because WinSCP is so successful. Doesn't have to be identical or complete, just close enough to be familiar -- someday I might paste something up with Python if there isn't already a good alternative.

Alex Brown <Alexander_Brown at uml dot edu >

The features I love are:
remote file editing using gvim (or another editor)
-- yes, I know I can do this using existing tools, but they are not as responsive
-- nautilus is slow, as is gvim's grafted in editing via scp
-- neither of the above is as forgiving when network connections drop.

run custom commands on files using the gui
-- I like being able to right click on a file and run a custom shell script.

transfer files in the background

I rarely use the synchro feature in WinSCP, but when I do, it's nice to have.

And, yeah, if I wanted to use the command line, I could, and I do often. However, that's not always what I want out of life.

WinSCP is simply better than the Lin graphical SCP/SFTP clients.

Under windows i normally use WinSCP as my standard SCP/SFTP Client. When using Linux the Graphical SFTP Client FileZilla (http://filezilla-project.org/) is great since it has a native linux version also. The GUI is imho not as good as the winscp user interface but a lot better than nautilus and others.

Greetings,
Michael

For quick solution, winscp should be used with wine. Works on my ubuntu 8.04
More timetaking but better solution: install sshfs-fuse
What I did to install ?
Get fuse-2.7.4.tar.gz and sshfs-fuse-2.2.tar.gz.
Tried installing sshfs-fuse directly, gave the error: "C compiler cannot create executables"
Installed g++ to remove above error: sudo apt-get install g++
Next it asked for fuse, glib-2.0 and gthread-2.0
Installed fuse.
Installed libglib2.0-dev for the other two package requirements as above:
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
Had permission problems when mounting using sshfs, so had to use an option:
sudo sshfs user@host: local_folder -o allow_other
ENJOY !!!

Please somebody port this excellent software to linux. This is the only software which force me to install wine. Although it run great on wine (but sometimes crash when opening large file), it lack the feel of native linux interface. Tried many alternative but none come close to winscp. Gnome commander most likely be the candidate but still lack important capability e.g not able to open conf file in internal viewer and a few others. I've tried every other alternative but at the end still have to comeback to wine and winscp. So, please.

I agree Krusader is great.

Krusader doesn't have Putty-like functionalities (SSH and telnet GUI integrated) and it's KDE.
Does someone have a good suggestion for a WinsCCP look-a-like for Gnome?