Questions tagged [winscp]
WinSCP is an open source free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for Windows. WinSCP is commonly used by power users to upload files to web servers. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and .NET assembly to automate file transfer tasks.
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How to connect WinSCP through command line not in GUI mode?
Connect WinSCP console through command-line. Run batch file in it. Commands should be included in batch file for connecting with the server.
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WinSCP and Notepad++: File does not exist anymore?
I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and installed WinSCP (imported websites login information from the other computer) and Notepad++ (6.8, previously I used 5.6). I use WinSCP in combination with ...
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Variable in WinSCP script
I'm asked to automate some SFTP download processes via WinSCP. I'm not familiar with WinSCP scripting.
ftprun.cmd:
C:\Program Files\WinSCP\winscp.com" /script=D:\testsftp\ftpscript.txt
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WinSCP putting multiple files on SFTP site
With WinSCP 5.2 I wanted to put multiple files with a file extension .pgp on an SFTP site. When I tested my original command line (see below) and it only placed the first *.pgp alphabetical file (D:\a....
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Help understanding iostat output
I am watching iostat while doing a remote copy using WinSCP. WinSCP is reporting a ~8MB/s transfer rate.
iostat reports a 2.37MB/s read rate.
How does that make sense?
Every 13.0s: iostat -m /dev/...
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Open ftp protocol in WinSCP from chrome
On a day to day basis I need to access various FTP servers. I have a ftp:// protocol link for each of them in our webinterface. Everytime I click them, Chrome opens them in a new tab in its built-in "...
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Automatically rename uploaded files not to conflict with existing files using SFTP (WinSCP)
I have file named with A.txt, Using batch command to copy the file to SFTP Server. After copying the A.txt, to copy the A.txt again to SFTP on same path.There is no possible same name with two files ...
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SSH as Normal User --> SU --> SCP as Root
I'm on a Win7 box connecting to a linux server.
From reading: http://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_su it looks like I need to open my SCP connections as the particular user.
When I connect via SSH, I can ...
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Does /NOCANDY avoid any adware-related activities with OpenCandy?
OpenCandy claims that using the /NOCANDY switch when using a OpenCandy-affiliated installer allows you to avoid opencandy.
Should I take their word for it?
If not, can anyone independent of OpenCandy ...
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How to make WinScp use the same proxy as Cygwin ssh
I'm working on a Windows machine behind a firewall.
In Windows control panel, there's a proxy .pac file configured, which browsers use successfully.
When I use ssh (within Cygwin), I have a ...
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Does SFTP and WinSCP support "intelligent" uploading of "only changed" files?
If I script-connect to a webhost space with SFTP, using WinSCP, and "PUT" a local dir tree called "My Website" to the remote dir, I assume that it will successfully upload it the first time, with any ...
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Why can’t connect to my school's servers from my hospital’s network when I was able to connect from my hotel’s network?
I'm a college student studying software engineering, and right now I'm in the hospital, but I'm still trying to do my schoolwork. The semester is almost over, so I really can't afford to fall behind. ...
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Getting "Error code: 4 (Failure)" when uploading a file to CentOS using WinSCP
I am using WinSCP from last six months almost regularly.
Suddenly i am facing a issue that is, I am not able to upload a file in server using it.
Its throwing below error message:
General failure (...
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Does WinSCP support Linux ACLs?
A Windows desktop user is using WinSCP client to connect to a Linux server to pick and drop files. The client seems not to recognize the Access Control List (ACL) for this directory. Does WinSCP ...
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Which port must I unblock in firewall for FTPS using WinScp to evade Timeout?
I'm suing FTPS in WinScp for sending data to my Synology diskstation. When I'm doing it inside a private network using port 21 for connection everything works fine. But when I'm trying the same thing ...
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WinSCP equivalent for Linux/Ubuntu
I'm shifting most of my projects to a Linux machine, and one of the things that I miss is WinSCP. I've found other answers saying that nautilus, FileZilla etc. can be used for SFTP, but something that ...
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Using WinSCP's scripting, when syncing a remote dir to a local dir, how do I make it delete the files which have been synced from the remote side?
I have a server with a dir called "user-submitted data". It contains a bunch of files. I use this WinSCP command to synchronize this directory's files to my local directory:
synchronize ...
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Cloud Foundry and WinSCP
What is the simplest way to access the Cloud Foundry application container using WinSCP?
The way I know, I need following steps:
Login / Target
cf login
cf target -o app-org -s app-space
Retrieve ...
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Running winscp on a mac using wine
I have a Mac (El Capitan OS) and I really want to use winscp on it.
I installed wine on my Mac using:
brew install wine
It installed:
https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/wine-3.0_2.el_capitan....
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WinSCP: Current SFTP-3 session does not support command you request. Separate shell session may be opened to process the command
I'm using WinSCP to interact with a remote server that supports only SFTP and doesn't allow SSH access.
My interaction involves moving/deleting a subset of files (identified by file names) in a ...
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WinSCP with tabs or alternative
This has been bugging me for a while now. I really miss tabs in WinSCP, because I always have to backtrack back and forward between folders on the same server.
Everytime I do a google search if tabs ...
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How to add/remove drives to Windows OpenSSH SFTP server?
I've setup the built-in OpenSSH in Windows 10 and connected remotely via WinSCP SFTP protocol. I seem to have access to all folders in my C: drive, but I cannot access the external drives of my ...
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Server load affection due to excesive SFTP connections to sync server
I am planning to synchronize around 200 very small files per hour (less than 1KB each file), the source files are on a remote SFTP server and the destination files are on a Windows Server. My fear is ...
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FileZilla Misreports File Sizes
I have the task of downloading some backups from our hosted web site and the backup are quite large, 4,755,281KB, yes it's over 4GB. I installed FileZilla and navigated to the remote directory and it ...
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WinSCP overwrites files without asking
Obviously I accidentally hit the "don't ask me again" button when I overwrote some files. How to undo it? I cannot find the setting to make WinSCP ask me next time.
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Scaling an application
If my question is in any way unclear to you, please read this link.
I'm wondering if there is a way to set up an application to appear larger.
The reason I'm asking this is that I recently ...
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Upload only the latest file with WinSCP
I am pretty new at WinSCP. I would like to know if this application will allow me to send only the latest modified file in a local directory to a remote directory. Please note that contents in both ...
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Which versions of the Windows TLS/SSL file transfer software like WinSCP and FileZilla are not affected by Heartbleed?
I noticed that many people still use versions affected by the heartbleed vulnerability of wide spread TLS/SSL enabled Windows clients like WinSCP and Filezilla.
To be able to make safe ...
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WinSCP like Sync on linux
I'm trying to sync files to an FTP like WinSCP does on linux (continually checking for changes and uploading changed files). Is there such a thing?
I know of rsync but I don't think that triggering ...
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How come can WinSCP or FileZilla not be listed in HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*).DisplayName
I am running a program to check whether specific software is installed on the server. For Google Chrome and Notepad++ I can use
(gp HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*)....
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How to configure WinSCP with SSH proxy
I'm trying to configure WinSCP for use with a proxy so that I can Login to my site (I'm trapped behind a corporate firewall). I'm trying to follow the directions of https://www.javahotchocolate.com/...
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Remote PXE server files
Is it possible to view the contents of a remote PXE/TFTP Server on a Windows PC? I would like to get the pxelinux.0 file off of a remote server, but when I connect using WinSCP or just Explorer I get ...
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Copied a file with WinSCP; only WinSCP can see it
I recently copied a 25.5GB file from another machine using WinSCP. I copied it to C:\beth.tar.gz, and WinSCP can still see the file. However no other app (including Explorer) can see the file. What ...
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can i use PuTTY to transfer files to my PC?
i'm having trouble connecting to our cluster with winSCP can i use PuTTY as an alternative?
How do i transfer files to my PC using PuTTY or some other alternative for winSCP?
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Permission denied in Amazon EC2 while accessing Tomcat 7 folder
I am trying to copy a log file from an Amazon EC2 instance to my local machine (Windows 7). I am using WinSCP438, which is able to connect to the remote (Amazon EC2) server instance. I am trying to ...
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How does server-to-server FTP transfer work in WinSCP GUI
Maybe it's quite straightforward, but am not aware how to find this. My requirement is to transfer data from source FTP server to destination FTP server.
To accomplish this I have installed WinSCP ...
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Prevent WinSCP from uploading .filepart
I have 26 files that I'm trying to upload into an SFTP directory I have 0777 on, and WinSCP seems to stream the file with a .filepart extension which it removes once uploaded. The problem I have is ...
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Connect WinSCP or other FTP GUI tools to Vagrant box
Is it possible to connect WinSCP or other FTP based GUI tools like FileZilla etc.. to Vagrant box managed Ubuntu instance?
Currently I have Ubuntu 14.04 running on Windows host (using VirtualBox). I ...
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Ubuntu server doesn't handle SFTP/SCP connection
I've installed FTP on Ubuntu 14.04 server and I tried to connect to it via FileZilla. It works if I use FTP. But if I try to connect via SFTP, there are no folders or files shown, and I get the error:
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WinSCP wildcard directory and file
I have directories test1-test10 in a remote FTP server.
Using WinSCP scripting, I want to retrieve every file under these directories.
This shows all directories:
ls test*
I want to retrieve all ...
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Authentication with ssh and scp works but not WinSCP
I have a Ubuntu server with 3 user accounts (root, user1, user2).
user1 has access via WinSCP, scp and ssh. No problems here. Then I've created another user2 but with this user I can't access the ...
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Synchronized browsing between two Dired Emacs buffers?
I use two Dired Emacs buffers, juxtaposed in two vertical panels to copy files from my local computer to a distant server (over SCP). I hit Ctrl + C to copy the local file and give the path to the ...
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WinSCP clobbers permission & group on replace
Is there a way to tell winscp to keep the group and permission of my upload file? I am tired of modifying webpages/webapp binaries and needing to change the group to www-data so the server can read ...
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How to download a file from multiple Linux machines using WinSCP or batch script?
I need to download a specific file from 40 different Linux machines.
How can I achieve using single script?
I tried WinSCP.com /script=script.txt
Here the limitations is only one session can me make ...
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How to copy only folder contents with WinSCP script
I am using below winscp script to upload files to an FTP server. I just want copy folder contents not to create new directory in the FTP server.
open ftp://**/billing/test
put "d/test"
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How to get un-encrypted FTP login passwords from WinSCP export file?
I can't remember my FTP login passwords. But my FTP login passwords saved in WinSCP application. How I show my saved passwords? (I have exported passwords as WinSCP.ini but I can't see the passwords. ...
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WinSCP keeps changing file owner
For some reason when I save files in WinSCP, it reverts the owner/group back to root. Is there a reason why this is happening? It only started happening recently. I am not sure if this is a WinSCP ...
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WinSCP script fails to transfer file to a remote location
When I try to run a small script using WinSCP client below error throws while transferring the file to the remote server and getting aborted.
Error message
C:\WinSCP-5.9.6-Portable>WinSCP.com /...
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WinSCP and PuTTY SSH (SFTP) authentication to Windows OpenSSH server won't work using public keys
Maybe I'm missing a small detail, but I'm a little confused because of the many keys I see on the server.
I've used the public key authentication set up guide of WinSCP
and PuTTY installation for ...
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Connecting to IPv6-only server using WinSCP
Some family members asked me to help configuring WinSCP. They need to connect to multiple servers some of which are dual stack and some which are IPv6-only.
What we did so far is the following:
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