How do I enable the SFTP server?

[hueyii]

I've installed FileZilla but can find no information os configuring it to accept SSH over FTP connections on port 22. Do I just change the FTP port to 22 or is this functionality somehow automagic??

[botg]

Where does it say it supports SFTP?

[rjensen]

The features page for FileZilla states, as the second bulleted item, "Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)", and there is no lesser or restricted set of features stated for FileZilla Server, so in the absence of specifically stated features for FielZilla Server the stated features are those of both the FileZilla client and server: although it is not!

[botg]

Yes, under the client category. But this is the server.

[boco]

Filezilla Server only supports FTP, FTPS and FTPES, no SFTP. SFTP is, unlike FTP(E)S a completely different beast than FTP, it shares nothing but the name with it.

Filezilla Client includes part of PuTTY to accomplish SFTP support (FZsftp.exe). The server counterpart would still have to be coded, which will not be anytime soon, if ever.



Edit by botg: Added the missing, but semantically required Server in the first sentence.

[antistar]

Wow is SFTP realy that much more difficult to implement server side as a feature? there are several other solutions available that can handle it. FreeFTPd seems to be able to do it...?

Not trying to be a jerk just asking, as I'm not a programmer. it just seems that FTP over SSL has always been something of a headache to set up regardless of the client/server.

[da chicken]

SFTP is as different from FTP or FTPS as it can get. They are completely unrelated protocols. I'd avoid FreeFTPd in favor of FreeSSHd. The former hasn't had a release in almost 3 years. It's dead.

When FileZilla Server returns to active development, I can't say if it will be developed as an SFTP server or not. Botg is now primarily a Linux user, and OpenSSH is more than sufficient for SFTP. There's just no good free solution for SFTP on Windows.