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WinSCP replacement (self.linuxmint)

submitted 2 weeks ago by aprehendedmerlin to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys, I'm preparing to migrate to Linux soon and I wanted to know what's the replacement for winscp program on linux. It's an gui app for running SCP connections and running ftp, SFTP server

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I use sshfs and smb and cifs

[–] aprehendedmerlin 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate please what's smb and cifs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

SMB is the linux version of Windows File Sharing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software) It is rather easy to use. Check out the manual, it is long but actually good. On linux, use smbclient to mount a remote share. It's also quite easy to set up servers that can be accessed from both Windows and Linux, with lots of options on how to handle/simplify permissions.

CIFS is something similar that seems to be faster, but I've only used it as a client. On Windows, WinSCP works great with it. On linux you can use mount CIFS remote directories locally like this: mount -t cifs //HOSTNAME/REMOTEPATH LOCALPATH -o username=USERNAME,domain=DOMAIN.

Ask google or a good LLM for the details on this stuff :)