Re: SFTP product recomendation for Win2K3 servers

[Frederick Ullman <Ullman () FREDONIA EDU>]

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For what it's worth we've been using the SSH.Com
product for several years.

Our biggest complaint is that they seem to have
ignored the need for backward feature compatibility
when they upgrade their product.   In particular, we
have had to stay on an older release on one of our
systems because our deployment on that system, which
serves 7000+ users, depends on a feature that SSH.com
discontinued when version 4 gave way to version 5.

We've also found SSH.com support to be marginal and
not very helpful when we are trying to resolve issues
they say they cannot reproduce.  Also we've
experienced some some apparent non-SSH.COM SFTP client
compatibility issues even with their newer releases.

On the plus side, performance seems adequate.  And the
product seems reliable for most users although a
handful (typically but not exclusively Mac users)
complain about abnormally terminated sessions and or
slow transfer rates.

We have started looking at the VanDyke SFTP product as
a possible replacement.

-Fred

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Frederick D. Ullman, Ph.D.
Director of Computing Services
State University of New York at Fredonia
Phone: 716-673-3393


--On Monday, October 08, 2007 3:55 PM -0400 Scott
Koger <skoger () EMAIL WCU EDU> wrote:

> Ssh.com seems to be the overwhelming consensus,
> waiting for pricing from our "guy". Thanks
>
> M. Scott Koger, CISSP
> Security Analyst
> Information Technology
> Western Carolina University
> Cullowhee, NC 28723
> Office 828.227.2489
> Fax    828.227.7700
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buz Dale [mailto:buz.dale () USG EDU]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 3:46 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] SFTP product recomendation
> for Win2K3 servers
>
> What about SSH.com?
>
> http://ssh.com/products/eft/
>
> Luck,
> Buz