scp/sftp solutions for Windows to HP-UX?

[Doug Kratky]

We have all of our HP-UX users/developers converted to using scp and sftp instead of ftp from UNIX to UNIX. But, they have automated FTP jobs running from Windows to HP-UX so we haven't been able to turn FTPD off.

Could anyone share their scp/sftp solution for Windows servers? Is PuTTY a good alternative or is there some reason it should be avoided on servers or for non-interactive use?


Thanks,
Doug

[TwoProc]

The Cygwin tools are a great fit for this. It has ssh, scp, sftp, etc. It will give a Unix command line (bash, ksh, etc) with full access to ssh on your Windows box. www.cygwin.com for details.

[Rick Garland]

My vote goes for cygwin.

Nothing wrong with Putty, it works and haven't had any trouble.

cygwin I like better. Especially the part where I issue UNIX like commands on a winbloz system and it works. Also has X emulation and the ssh/scp/sftp included - all in one!

The cygwin setup is the same for making and distributing keys.

Best of all, NO MONETARY COST!

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

I have only a little bit experience with it, but it did work fine for me (going to a VMware ESX service console = Red Hat Linux).

[Doug Kratky]

Thanks for the responses.

I like Cygwin, too, and use it on PCs. But it's probably too much for servers where I'm really looking just for scp and sftp.

[TwoProc]

Doug, I'm pretty sure that you could load just scp and sftp only from the Cygwin installer. I can't see how that would be a problem.

[Rick Garland]

If all you care about are the scp/sftp tools, you can invoke these commands only as needed. The rest of cygwin can lie dormant and use 0% of a servers resources.