Re: What "secure" file transfer products do you use on Windows?

[Jesse Thompson <jesse.thompson () DOIT WISC EDU>]

I've used PSCP, which is part of the PuTTY project (open source)

It's small and portable so you can keep it on a thumbdrive without
having to install it.  It works just like scp.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Jesse

Russell Fulton wrote:
> 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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  Jesse Thompson
  Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Email/IM: jesse.thompson () doit wisc edu

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