SFTP GUI program suggestions?

[nawiMember]

Hello,

I’m using antiX 22 and very pleased with its performance on older machines.
PuTTY works fine to access remote servers, however I’m really struggling to find a working GUI to transfer files from that server.
Ideally, due to complexity in handling 2FA, I’d like to find a program that, if a PuTTY session is running, can just let me download the files without asking to login, as PuTTY handles that just fine.
I did try for example FileZilla but didn’t manage to login, while PuTTY was ok.
If not, of course any GUI solution, I’m willing to try it.

So far I did try, with no success, the following: Dolphin, Konqueror, Nemo, Thunar.
I did have a look online and followed suggestions to make sure to install (or also to reinstall) gfvs, gfvs-backends.
Tried that, rebooted too, nothing. Even just trying sftp:// gives a red box with grayed out “connect” button in Konqueror, Nemo gives a cannot handle network locations error.

TLDR; I’d appreciate if you’d suggest a lightweight GUI for SFTP. Possibly one that can use PuTTY already-logged-in session, but if not, willing to explore anything that will work.

Thank you for your help

[RobinMember]

Have you already tried what I had written here?
This should allow you to access SFTP resources via antiX default zzzFM simply.

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[techoreMember]

Filezilla does work but if you are looking for lightweight scp or sftp client, use midnight commander. It is installed by default on antiX, I believe.

The attached image has the scp highlighted but note the sftp below it.

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[nawiMember]

That solved it, thank you both!

[BobCModerator]

Good to know. I luv Midnight Commander. Has anyone seen a tutorial that covers doing SFTP transfers with mc? I wish I had known that when I was working.

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[techoreMember]

BobC wrote:

Has anyone seen a tutorial that covers doing SFTP transfers with mc?

Instruction are found on its man page and if you launch mc, select “SFTP link,” then F1, it prints out the appropriate section from the man page.

The short tutorial is if the user exists on both machines, select “SFTP link,” enter the ip address or hostname, then you will be prompted to add it to known_hosts on initial connection followed with a password prompt. Ideally, you would use a key pair to connect without a password, but the setup is more involved.

Note if connecting to a system using dropbear versus openssh, use “Shell link” for dropbear is strictly SSH and doesn’t run a seperate process for SFTP like openssh.

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[RobinMember]

techore wrote:

Note if connecting to a system using dropbear versus openssh, use “Shell link” for dropbear is strictly SSH and doesn’t run a seperate process for SFTP like openssh.

So we are not talking about SFTP (RFC: 913), but about sshFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol, no RFC)? Sorry, the thread header was misleading, and my former answer above was for SFTP (Simple File Transfer Protocol). They really should not have used the same abbreviation for two things that similar!

Nevertheless, zzzFM allows easily to set up your individual handlers for each protocol, I guess you can set it up for SSH File transfer protocol as well. Then you have your GUI perfectly blending into antiX. See file:///usr/share/doc/zzzfm/zzzfm-manual-en.html#handlers for details

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[techoreMember]

@robin, I do not recollect ever using Simple File Transfer Protocol, but I may have a very long time ago. The RFC was an interesting read and, yeah, confusing to have two with the same acronym.

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