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Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows?
From: Jim Pollard <jim.pollard () MAIL UTEXAS EDU>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:37:23 -0600
My experience with Bitvise has been very good. Especially if you need a solution that will integrate with Microsoft AD. Reasonably priced (as you've pointed out) and reliable. ~Jim Jim Pollard Computer Systems Development Specialist Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Texas at Austin it () bme utexas edu 512.789.4345 "The intelligent man is capable of overcoming problems and difficulties the wise man would have avoided in the first place." Rabbi Yusef Becher -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Russell Fulton Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 5:49 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Hi Folk, So far as I can tell MS recommends webdav as a secure alternative to FTP for allowing access to files under windows. We have found that MS's implementation of webdav does not perform well with large files across a wide area networks. It opens lots of tcp session that are so short that the window stuff never gets a chance to optimise resulting in very slow transfer rates. We were transferring large MRI images ( multi GB) between our Medical School and US institutions. Interestingly we collect the MRI same images from hospitals around the world with a UNIX based server with out issues but when our users tried to use the webdav direct between two windows machines the transfers slowed to a trickle. After hours of peering at wireshark traces we decided that it was a TCP window problem cause my the MS server chopping the file in to tiny pieces and sending each over a different TCP session. I am looking for an SSH 2 based system (free preferred ;) or commercial) that we can recommend to any of our users who need to transfer files between windows systems. I know several such systems exist and I'm hoping someone has already done the leg work of evaluating them... I'd be happy to have one free one and a commercial offering to recommend. Thanks, Russell
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- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Matthew Topper (Feb 22)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Bradley, Stephen W. Mr. (Feb 22)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Russell Fulton (Feb 22)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Justin Dover (Feb 22)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Tupker, Mike (Feb 22)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Jason C. Belford (Feb 23)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Don Carlton (Feb 23)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Rappaport,Jason (Feb 23)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Jesse Thompson (Feb 23)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Di Fabio, Andrea (Feb 23)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Jim Pollard (Feb 23)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Stanclift, Michael (Feb 23)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Joe Vieira (Feb 23)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Vik Solem (Feb 24)
- Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows? Gary Flynn (Feb 24)