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1354381	2013-09-25 21:30:00	Do many people here, use this utility? I've heard it mentioned a lot, but never used it myself. Generally I find PuTTy and Filezilla more than adequate for my purposes. Part of a tutorial, I've been following, suggested it to copy a file in /etc/openvpn, on my Rasppi, to a folder on my windows machine. So I downloaded it and installed it with the "commander" interface, and while it wasn't very successful with even identifying /etc on the RaspPi, I thought it had an interesting interface. So I used it to see what it could do with my Linux server - that works really well! I think it might be worthwhile investigating it's capabilities? Am I better to just stick with Filezilla?	jcr1 (893)
1354382	2013-09-25 22:09:00	Nah its great, I use it all the time from Windows. You'll need to just get used to how the linux filesystem works. Go "Up a level" to get to /etc	Chilling_Silence (9)
1354383	2013-09-26 00:22:00	Nah its great, I use it all the time from Windows. You'll need to just get used to how the linux filesystem works. Go "Up a level" to get to /etc I've just created a photo gallery type web page, using "jalbum", and saved it into a folder on my desktop. Then I opened up WinSCP and just dragged 'n dropped the folder into the web site part of my server - very slick. I did this from root (not good practice - alright from home I guess), as the user would not let me do it. I'll bet I'd better check the users permissions. All my users in /xhomes (web) are chroot jailed. But it's handy to have some, that can have files dumped into them from a remote location. i.e. I do photo galleries for those at home while I'm out and about. Anyway I can see I could get to really like this programme.	jcr1 (893)
1354384	2013-09-26 01:36:00	I went up a level, just like you said Chill. And there it was /etc, in all it's glory! It wouldn't work for me last night, for some reason, or I was confused or something; because I do know about the linux file system. Maybe I just imagined it was a WinSCP quirk and looked for something more complicated ...I dunno. I also tried another user, for dropping files into - worked perfectly. It's a kinda Dropbox alternative, I called it filesync and I can get to it from anywhere using SFTP Net Drive Free. It's also "chroot jailed" - just like my photo galleries. But from what I can see, WinSCP is going to do the same job. Just a tad slicker than good old Filezilla.	jcr1 (893)
1354385	2013-09-26 03:14:00	Only time I had to use WinSCP was to transfer VM files accross ESX hosts...didnt like it much, very slow!...	SolMiester (139)
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