Peter Woods

You know that you've been doing a lot of PHP and MySQL work when your sentences end with a semicolon;

Gill Murrey has been working with the Adobe folks today in an effort to get Contribute 4 to connect to our web servers using SFTP.  Apparently, they've acknowledged that there is a bug in the Windows version of the Contribute 4 client.  The Mac version connects just fine so it's not the permissions on the server (which is what Adobe has been telling me all along).  A bug? Hmmm. I wonder who said this before .

Several people have noticed that a plain FTP client will not connect to the new web servers.  Plain FTP is unencrypted, and this poses a small issue in the new environment.  Users authenticate to the new servers using their VUnetID and Epassword, rather than a local account.  Since a VUnetID can be used to access many other applications, encryption is a necessity.  The new servers support SFTP, which is sometimes called Secure FTP or FTP over SSH.  So which clients are SFTP capable?  Try one of the following:

• SSH Secure File Transfer (Download available from the ITS website.)
• WinSCP
• FileZilla
• Fugu

Linux and Unix users may be more accustomed to using scp from the OpenSSH package.