Re: Anybody managed to get sftp working?

Thanks for answering. Yes, I have tried the command line and the best I 
managed was to connect my box to itself. Which was not quite the purpose 
of the exercise........

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Ken Lowther wrote:

> 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
>