Re: SFTP with client

Hi Mark,

FTP is a standard internet protocol for file transfer. It's not secure,
however, so should only be used in a trusted environment. People have
tried to improve it's security by adding SSL support, so you have FTP
over SSL. This is sometimes called "Secure FTP", and it's sometimes
called "FTPS" (especially in URLs, ftps://server.com/dir/file.ext). It
is not the same thing as SFTP.

SFTP is not FTP at all. It is an FTP-like user interface to the SSH
protocol. That's why you seee "SSH-2.0-1.36" in your log. Because you
are connecting to an SSH server, not an FTP server!

The simple fact is, your FTP client is NOT going to work. It doesn't
understand the SSH protocol. You need an SSH client.

IBM provides a (free) port of OpenSSH, which is the most popular SSH
client in the world. It's provided with the free licpgm, 5733-SC1. But
it does run in PASE.

I've written a bunch of articles on this stuff. Let me know if you'd
like me to post links.

Mark Allen wrote:

I have a customer who is switching effective immediately (this Friday)

and

they want is to connect using the server name they specified (which I do

see

connections to) and port 13266.

We can't seem to get it working and my secureftp knowledge is limited and
their "i5" skills are none existent. They are saying that the user name

and

password from the clients they have "automagically" get passed but that

the

limit of their technical details. Screen shot below on what happens

below

what I am using for the Connection:

FTP RMTSYS(EXTERNALFTP.XXXXXXX.COM) PORT(13266) SECCNN(*SSL)

Connecting to host EXTERNALFTP.XXXXXXX.COM at address 2xx.xx8.xxx.xxx

using

port 13266.
SSH-2.0-1.36 sshlib: GlobalScape ---> this is where the "Vendor" says

it

is hanging up.

Is there some "simple" piece I am missing on the FTP command line or

another

"vital" piece I am blank about?

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