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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
- Connecting to the Server
- Transfering Files
- Configuring the Session
- Scripting/Automation
- Miscellaneous
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Connecting to the Server
- Where do I get username and password?
- Can I connect to FTP server?
- WinSCP gives warning that the server’s host key was not found in cache. What does it mean?
- How do I know if the connection is secure?
- I receive “Received too large (??? B) SFTP packet” on login. What is wrong?
- I click on “Login” button, program starts connecting, but then it displays some error message and quits. What I’m doing wrong?
- Where should I type the IP address of my remote host?
- How can I use WinSCP with OpenSSH for Windows?
- Why WinSCP keeps asking me for a session password?
Transfering Files
- Can I transfer files between two remote servers with WinSCP (FXP)?
- When I drop files outside of WinSCP, they are moved to drop target. I want to copy them. How do I do that?
- File transfer speed is very low. WinSCP does not utilize all available bandwidth. How do I improve the transfer speed?
- Downloaded files are stored first to temporary directory and only after that, they are moved to destination directory. How do I prevent storing files to temporary directory?
- I need to overwrite remote file that isn’t owned by me, but I’m member of its group. File has write permission for group. After transfer I get message like “Upload of file <filename> was successful, but error occurred while setting the permissions and/or timestamp”
- Where can I change file transfer mode (binary, ascii) or enable auto-select transfer mode option?
- Why is the timestamp of uploaded/downloaded file different from the timestamp of source file?
- When I attempt to copy files, I get an Error 127. What does it mean?
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Configuring the Session
Scripting/Automation
Miscellaneous
- How do I change user after login (e.g. su root)?
- Can I change my account password with WinSCP?
- Can I have a local directory in both panels (turn WinSCP into file manager)?
- How do I change drive on the remote panel?
- How do I make WinSCP show UTF-8 encoded (Unicode) filenames correctly?
- Why cant I edit more than one file with my external editor?
- Can WinSCP show me HTTP URL addresses for the selected file?
- What do direction options (local, remote, both) for Synchronization mean?
- During synchronization all files are transferred. How do I make WinSCP transfer only changed files?
- Can I map an SFTP or SCP server as a network drive in Windows?
- Why can’t I change the owner and the group of a file?
- What is error code 4? (or some other error code)
- How do I transfer my settings to another computer? How do I import/export my settings?
- I cant read the file panel font. How can I make the panel font bigger?
- What command-line parameters can be used with WinSCP?
- How to keep the user in a specified directory on the server? (chrooted session)
- Why does selecting a file in WinSCP not work as I expect (that is, in the normal MS Windows way)?
- Can the internal editor be better (e.g. syntax highlighting)?
- Only scp2 is allowed on our server. Is it possible to make WinSCP use it instead of scp1?