Integrate SCP protocol in TC

[NT Man]

Hi, I am web server admin and developer. On my servers, I fully refuse FTP (using SSH for management and file transfer) I would like if Total Commander worked with SCP as good as with FTP. SFTP plugin very buggy and requires additional libraries.

[karlchen]

Hello, NT Man.

The SFTP plugin written by the Total Commander creator does support SCP.

You may like to make sure that you are using the latest plugin version at the time of writing this, which is v0.97beta, plus the latest libcurl libraries for Windows which is v7.20.0.

What is so terrible about downloading the libcurl library package and extracting the files libeay32.dll, libssh2.dll and libssl32.dll to the SFTP plugin folder? Why should Christian re-invent the wheel as somebody else obviously has already done so?

SFTP plugin very buggy

Would you care to elaborate a bit on what exactly does not work for you, please? I am using this plugin daily for FTP connections over SSH. But I would not call it very buggy, in particular because it is still a 0.97 beta version.

The one thing which irritates me is that I have not yet figured out how to establish two or more SFTP connections to the same machine under different accounts at the same time. Yet, I am not sure whether it is my ignorance or a missing capability of the plugin, yet.

Kind regards,
Karl

[Sob]

The one thing which irritates me is that I have not yet figured out how to establish two or more SFTP connections to the same machine under different accounts at the same time.

It works only if you define them as separate connections, e.g. \\Secure FTP\user@mymachine\ and \\Secure FTP\otheruser@mymachine and store the respective usernames in each profile. If you have only one connection (\\Secure FTP\mymachine) and you're writing the username each time you connect or if you use quick connection, you're out of luck. In that case, when you open it for the second time, plugin looks at the existing connection and says "hey, I already have that one open!" and goes right there. I think it's limitation of FS plugin interface and nothing can be done about that. You can join the believers in Server plugins and pray that one day... ;)

[karlchen]

Hello, Sob.

you define them as separate connections, , e.g. \\Secure FTP\user@mymachine\ and \\Secure FTP\otheruser@mymachine

Thanks a lot for your explanation. I was afraid that this might be the answer. This will blow up my list of 30 connections to about 90 or 100 items. Great.

join the believers in Server plugins and pray that one day ...

You have a new member.

Cheers,
Karl

[ghisler(Author)]

2NT Man
Please report bugs in the sftp plugin thread instead of complaining that my plugin is buggy. I cannot fix any bugs I don't know about.

2karlchen
Sorry, but all the connection settings are stored by the name of the connection. Therefore if you need two separate logins at the SAME time, you need to have two separate connection names, e.g. connection1 and connection2. You don't need to store the user names in them.

[karlchen]

Hello, Christian.

Sorry, but all the connection settings are stored by the name of the connection. Therefore if you need two separate logins at the SAME time, you need to have two separate connection names, e.g. connection1 and connection2. You don't need to store the user names in them.

Al right, I see.

There are about 30 different Unix machines in my SFTP list, no usernames stored in the connection settings. On most of them, I log in using 2 or 3 or even 4 different accounts. Yet, I do not so all the time. And in particular, situations when I have to logon to the same machine under more than 2 different accounts simultaneously are extremely rare.

So chances are that my current list will gradually grow from 30 connection names to 60 in the end. This is not as bad as the 90 to 100 items which I had expected before.

Kind regards,
Karl