how to FTP from remote host to local system

Question

I'm using Windows XP. I'm connecting to a UNIX box using putty SHH(ksh).

Now I want to copy a text file present in remote host to my local system.

How can I do that?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Download psftp from the putty site.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Answer 2

SSH file transfer is usually with scp. Putty should come with the tool pscp. You can use this to copy in either direction.

Answer 3

This is forum is a place for programming related questions.

anyways, try this link.

Answer 4

I use Winscp. http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

Answer 5

not sure why nobody has pointed this out. But if you want to FTP from A to B, and B to A, you'd need to put an FTP server on each computer. that's easy enough..

however.. another thing you can do.. is not as simple.. and perhaps (my?) terminology gets mirky here.. but if you only want to initiate the connection from the end where the server is, then there' a way with SSH, to do a reverse connection. Where instead of client initiating to server. You have the server initiating the connection , to a listening process on the other computer. There is quite a bit online about making a reverse connection with SSH. I think you can set it up as a socks proxy and have any general type of server like FTP, use it over a reverse connection. I did something like it once. at least that's at best a general idea! ssh tunnel reverse connection.