Mac sftp

Dominic Mitchell dom at happygiraffe.net
Tue Apr 18 13:23:42 BST 2006


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:40:31AM +0200, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote:
> Right. This is a 'do my homework' question - apologies all.
> 
> I'm really clueless about Macs. A client of $JOB appears to
> work from a Mac (as based on his mail agent being Microsoft
> Entourage), and is not incredibly technical. He should access
> an sftp server (ftp/ssh2). I would point him toward Filezilla,
> or possibly Core-FTP Lite if it were Windows.
> 
> A quick Google shows several options, none of which I can assess.
> Rbrowser and Fugu - free and shiny.
> Fetch - free for educational use, which applies here.
> Transmit - shiny but not Free.
> MacSFTP - development appears to have stopped. Also, commercial.
> 
> Any preferences? Thoughts? Amusing duck stories? Thanks!
> 
> (Don't know which version of OS X he's using. His Entourage is
> 10.1.4, fwiw)

Funny, this came up on macdevcenter.com a couple of days ago:

  http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/13/ftp.html

-Dom


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