Re: Good sftp server?

From: Russell E. Owen (rowen_at_cesmail.net)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:31:40 -0800

In article <cokitq$peb$1@news.process.com>,
 "Richard Whalen" <WhalenR@process.com> wrote:

>...The SFTP Server provided by Process Software with MultiNet, TCPware and
>SSH for OpenVMS is capable of doing text transfers. It follows draft 4 of
>the
>specification, which includes the ability to transfer a file in text mode.
>Unfortunately
>there are very few other implementations of this version of the protocol.
>
>When interacting with a client that implements an earlier version of the
>protocol
>the SFTP server will provide automatic conversion from VMS text file types
>to stream-lf format so that the file will be usable on the remote system.
>Initially
>this functionality had to be enabled by setting a logical, but it is now the
>default
>behavior and the logical can be used to disable it.

That is excellent news. Sounds like I need to bring our servers up to
the current patch revision level. No surprise -- we haven't touched them
in awhile.

$ multinet show/version
Process Software MultiNet V4.4 Rev A-X, DEC 3000 - M300LX, OpenVMS AXP
V7.2-1

>The SFTP server does handle logical names, but you can not include
>colon on them unless you are using our SFTP client...

This also is excellent news. It certainly is not true for our current
version of the server (and is something I complained about to Multinet
tech support way back when we first installed the software; it's great
to see that fixed).

The colon restriction matches my needs perfectly. I mostly transfer
files between MacOS X and VMS, and use a directory structure on the Mac
side whose directory names are logical names on the VMS side. This makes
for trivial upload to ftp, and now it sounds like I can do the same with
sftp and stop using ftp over an ssh tunnel (which was working fine but
required an extra step to set up the tunnel each time).

Anyway, I'll update and be happy. Thank you very much for the detailed
information.

-- Russell