At Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:13:30 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Bill Campbell<centos at celestial.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >>I installed gFTP but apparently it does not handle the sFTP protocol. > >>I also installed the FireFTP Add On for the Firefox browser, but when > >>I tried to connect to the server, it says that I need putty-tools. I > >>have the rpmforge and epel  repositories configured but yum did not > >>find putty-tools. Is there an RPM for a client program for gFTP or > >>putty-tools? If so, in which repository?   TIA! > > > > The sftp program is a standard part of the openssh package. > > Bill: Apparently openssh-4.3p2-29.el5.i386 is already installed. How > do I launch it or sFTP so I can upload files from my desktop to the > server? TIA! Lanny > > 1443 packages excluded due to repository priority protections > Setting up Install Process > Parsing package install arguments > Package openssh-4.3p2-29.el5.i386 already installed and latest version > Nothing to do sftp is a *CLI* program. To use it, you first need to start a terminal shell program. On the GNome desktop, select Applications=>Accessories=>Terminal (or maybe Applications=>System Tools=>Terminal, depending out how things are set up). [I don't use the GNome desktop environment enough to know for sure. On *other people's* computers I've seen the Terminal in either of these two places.] In the terminal window, you can then type: sftp username at hostname: Then you can type help to get a list of commands you can type from there. If you want a point-and-click interface, I don't know of one. I myself actually use scp or ssh (with tar or rsync etc.) also from the command line or with scripts. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/