graphical sftp client

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nedry

Hello, is there a good graphical SFTP client for FreeBSD 11? Currently I use WinSCP on Windows XP to upload files to my FreeBSD computer, would very much like to move entirely away from needing windows.
nedry
 
sko said:
Or just mount the target directory with sshfs() and use your favourite graphical file manager.
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I haven't tried on FreeBSD 11 yet but on FreeBSD 10 the FUSE SSH filesystem never worked the way I wanted. It always errored out when traversing a large directory tree on the remote server.
 
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kpa said:
I haven't tried on FreeBSD 11 yet but on FreeBSD 10 the FUSE SSH filesystem never worked the way I wanted. It always errored out when traversing a large directory tree on the remote server.
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That is a shame but thank you for posting this very useful info. While sshfs is probably not what OP was asking for and sftp/scp!=sshfs it is definitely usable in that fashion.
One of our lab members is an avid Windows users. However I refused to enable Samba only for her (I have over 60 people in the lab). She has being using

https://www.eldos.com/sftp-net-drive/

for several years now to connect to our file server running (you guessed right FreeBSD derivative). She routinely browses directories of sizes several terabytes and larger. During all this time I would sometime preform the tests using my OpenBSD laptop as a client machine. I have never had troubles sustaining sshfs mount for days at the time and browsing very large directories.
 
If you like the KDE desktop, you can use Dolphin for this. In the address bar / path bar, just type sftp://servername/path to login as your current user. If you want to login with a different user, then use sftp://username@servername/path

If you want to use SCP, then use fish:// instead of sftp:// in the above.

If you connect to the same server a lot, you can save them as Network connections.

The nice thing about KDE is that anywhere you can open a file, you can use SFTP to open remote files as if they were local. :)
 
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