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| 6.2.3 Issue 2231 – Support for posix-rename@openssh.com SFTP extension (martin) | 6.4 Bug 2247 Change: Limiting SFTP version to 3 with non-well-known SFTP servers as a workaround for interoperability issues. (martin) | ||
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| Use //SFTP server// to specify path to SFTP server binary. Keep value //Default// to use the default SFTP server. Usually there will not be more SFTP servers to choose from. However you may find the option useful to change the way the SFTP server is launched. Particularly you may want to change user (known as ''su'').((See [[faq_su|FAQ]] for details.)) | Use //SFTP server// to specify path to SFTP server binary. Keep value //Default// to use the default SFTP server. Usually there will not be more SFTP servers to choose from. However you may find the option useful to change the way the SFTP server is launched. Particularly you may want to change user (known as ''su'').((See [[faq_su|FAQ]] for details.)) | ||
| - | Use //Preferred SFTP protocol version// to configure maximal version of SFTP protocol that WinSCP will attempt to use. WinSCP will seamlessly downgrade to any lower version that the server supports. The only reason, that you may want to change the option for, is bug either in SFTP server or WinSCP itself specific to particular version of the protocol. | + | Use //Preferred SFTP protocol version// to configure maximal version of SFTP protocol that WinSCP will attempt to use. WinSCP will seamlessly downgrade to any lower version that the server supports. //In the latest beta version,// with the default //Auto// value, WinSCP will use the last version 6 with well known and tested SFTP servers and stable version 3 with others. The only reason, that you may want to change the option for, is bug either in SFTP server or WinSCP itself specific to particular version of the protocol or if you know that your non-mainstream SFTP server has good support for a newer version. |
| Adhering to the SFTP specification, when changing directory, WinSCP asks the SFTP server to canonicalize the new path.((Using the ''SSH_FXP_REALPATH'' request.)) With OpenSSH (and possibly other) SFTP servers this has side effect that the symbolic links in the path are resolved, what can complicate navigation back. Some minor SFTP servers even have this functionality broken. For either of these reasons, you may want to turn the canonicalization off, by unchecking //Canonicalize paths on the server//. | Adhering to the SFTP specification, when changing directory, WinSCP asks the SFTP server to canonicalize the new path.((Using the ''SSH_FXP_REALPATH'' request.)) With OpenSSH (and possibly other) SFTP servers this has side effect that the symbolic links in the path are resolved, what can complicate navigation back. Some minor SFTP servers even have this functionality broken. For either of these reasons, you may want to turn the canonicalization off, by unchecking //Canonicalize paths on the server//. | ||