Remotely manage files from a Windows machine

file-sharing filemanager remote

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If you have installed the OpenSSH server on the Ubuntu machine,then you should be able to use any SFTP/SCP-based file manager from the Windows box. My favorite is WinSCP but FileZilla is also popular.

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3rgo

Computer Science Engineer, specialized in Web development. Work : 2011-2016: Intranet tools development for Airbus France (Single page JS apps, with a PHP5+Symfony 2 REST API ; custom made Ruby CI/CD pipeline). 2016-2018: Project Manager/CTO for Decasoft 2019+: Freelance web developer (Symfony, Laravel, ReactJS) and Trainer (PHP, OOP, Algorithmics, JS) Tech Stack: PHP 5 to 8 Symfony, Laravel Laravel Livewire PHPUnit Javascript ReactJS AlpineJS MeteorJS (in progress) jQuery, Underscore/Lodash, MomentJS, D3.js, Leaflet MySQL, PostgreSQL, mongoDB (in progress) Bootstrap, MaterialUI, TailwindCSS Jenkins, Git Apache, NGINX Windows, Ubuntu, macOS Python, Bash

Updated on September 18, 2022

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3rgo almost 2 years

I have a home server/media center using Ubuntu 14.04, and I need to manage files on it from my Windows 7 machine (same LAN). At the moment I am using TeamViewer, but it's not really what I want, and I couldn't find a better solution.

The files are in Samba shared folders, but if I perform a write action on them (rename, edit, add file), it changes the owner.

Is there a Windows app that I can use so I remotely manage my Ubuntu filesystem without screwing the file ownership and chmods ? (E.g. something like Total Commander, but with SSH/remote acces capabilities ; or something that allows me to "mount" the shared folders so I can edit the files like I'm doing it directly in Ubuntu) I'm not looking for RDP software, I have TeamViewer for that, only something to manage files.

Thanks
3rgo about 9 years

I'm sorry, but this is not the kind of software I'm looking for. I'll edit my post to be more clear