WinSCP 4.0.3
Submitted by todd on Mon, 2007-08-20 21:11
If you often sit at a Windows PC but need to transfer files to or from a Linux box or Mac using SCP (Secure Copy), you definitely want to consider using the Open Source...
I've been using this for a couple of years now and it is definitely in my must-have list (Hmm, guess I should create an actual list for this site :-). This most recent version was released just last month on July 12.
Is this a better option than
Is this a better option than SFTP in Filezilla? That's what I use most commonly.
Andrew: WinSCP is not
Andrew: WinSCP is not necessarily a better option than using SFTP (in FileZilla Secure FTP which actually supercedes SCP in that provides a greater range of operations). However, despite its name, WinSCP supports SFTP as well. Both have a very similar user interface (the so-called Norton Commander-like interface). I'm simply started using WinSCP before I learned about FileZilla years ago and got comfortable with it first.