Re: SFTP with client

Latest word from Vendor was"

Can you try one more thing on the AS400? Can you set the FTP client to use
SSL again, but this time point it to port 13267 instead of port 13266? The
later is for SFTP, which you’ve established isn’t supported on your
installation. The 13267 is FTPS (implicit), which is FTP tunneled over FTP.
This may be what the AS400 is attempting to do.


I tried doing it with FTP to their site with port set to 13267 and secure
connection set to *SSL which never connects and also with secure connections
et to *IMPLICIT (which came back with

Connecting to host EXTERNALFTP.XXXXXXX.COM at address 2XX.XX.XXX.XXX using
port 13267.
Secure connection error, return code -23.


Still not sure why they are having me do this since there documentation
shows they ONLY support the SSH2 protocol which from Scotts very helpful
emails I believe means the native i5 FTP client is NOT going to work no
matter what.

Sorry, Scott didn't mean to imply it was "better" just that it would be
'easier" on this end since I've only got till Friday.



On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Hi Mark,

Personally, I find FTP over SSL to be a major headache, because NAT
routers are ubiquitous these days, and FTP over SSL really doesn't work
though a NAT router. Maybe when IPv6 gains critical mass this will
change, but for now, I find FTP over SSL to be a major headache.

SFTP (FTP interface to SSH) is much, much easier to set up and get
working over a network. It's also much more widely supported. In many
ways it's more versatile, and easier to write proper scripts that use it.

It does run in a Unix environment on i, and that does introduce a
learning curve to people who are not familiar with that environment. I
feel your pain, brother... but there are certainly advantages to SSH.


Mark Allen wrote:

Thanks Scott, looks like a LOT of work for us geting the additional PASE
stuff installed, etc. Since Friday looks like D-Day I'll keep everyone
posted.

This would have been SOOOOOOO easy if it was FTP over a true FTP with SSL
connection rather than this SFTP/SSH crap...

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