Re: Anybody managed to get sftp working?

Ken Lowther <[email protected]> Fri, 06 May 2005 09:58:05 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.amd64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yehudi Levine wrote:

> Has anyone out there have any experience with sftp? Because for the 
> life of me I cannot use it for file transfer. Makes no difference what 
> hardware I use, I always get the response: Received answer too long 
> 1181903136. Curiously, I am having the same problem even when using 
> 32bit boxes. I only bring this up as the new version of gftp - 2.0.18 
> - calls sftp instead of running ftp over ssh2 and addressing the 
> sftp-server directly.
>
> All suggestions, tips etc will be gratefully received - and answers 
> may be long too!
>
Have you tried it from the command line?  You can connect using what 
looks like an email address. 


sftp -v [email protected]

Ken