WinSCP client for Ubuntu

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Solution 1

If you are used to WinSCP,
one option is to install WINE and use WinSCP itself.

(note: my link is just a reference -- you may want to get the stable WINE release,
If the latest stable release of Wine (currently Wine 1.0.1) works for you,
then you may not want to use these beta packages).

I guess you are referring to this kind of discussion in your question.
That thread too refers WINE as one of the options (with some notes on crashes in 2007).

At the end is this Nautilus reference,

Ubuntu's Nautilus file explorer works just fine.
Places->Connect to Server and select SSH.

That is probably what Martin refers in his answer.

Update: for the record, this answer was accepted because it indirectly referred SecPanel.

SecPanel: SSH GUI for Unix.
SecPanel sits on top of SSH software-suites and supports the SSH.com and the OpenSSH-version.

Solution 2

Since you're trying to use scp I assume there is a an SSH server running on the remote machine. You can directly connect to ssh servers using Nautilus file manager. Just use something like

ssh://username@server:/path/on/remote/machine

in the address bar.

Furthermore, if an SSH server is running you could also use the SFTP protocol for remote file manipulation. Since Ubuntu comes with pre-installed Firefox, the easiest GUI would be the FireFTP-plugin.

Solution 3

You can use FileZilla on Ubuntu:

sudo aptitude install filezilla

Just make sure you connect using SFTP.

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Solution 4

In the top-left corner you have three menus. Select the middle one, and then the entry named something like "Connect to server". Here you'll have a list of available methods, select SSH or SFTP and fill in the details.

Solution 5

I solved this problem with bareFTP - it is in the Ubuntu repository.

bareFTP works very well. It is better than FileZilla, because for the same server and task, as SFTP-client, this cannot establish the connection.

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ukanth

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

ukanth almost 2 years

Are there any GUI clients for Ubuntu which can remotely connect to another Linux box over SCP?

I heard about the fish:// protocol and Konqueror (which is for Kubuntu using KDE), but I am looking for a simple GUI SCP application for Ubuntu.
Kim almost 15 years

Maybe you should translate those German words in the path.
nik almost 15 years

This is interesting... the OP accepts this answer but someone votes it down. Would have helped to know why.
Johan almost 15 years

Probably since wine is not the best solution here, wine will hide a lot of the file system from the windows application and that will probably annoy most people. Wine is a emergency solution if all else fails. (Wine is great for games and that kind of stuff, but not for filesystem/network programs).
nik almost 15 years

I know someone who uses wine for Microsoft Outlook too... to each their own. It would have helped more if the down-vote had noted that detail anyways.
nik almost 15 years

In fact, I am not sure if the OP used the Wine answer or found the cumulative notes in this answer useful.
Andrew W. Phillips almost 15 years

To browse for file inside nautilus, simply use sftp instead of ssh in the adress bar, so something like sftp://username@server:/path/on/remote/machine
ukanth almost 15 years

I have not voted for WINE solution , the discussion link which he pointed. It has lot of discussions and found SecPanel for my need.
Mike L. almost 14 years

Unfortunately, this does not ask for the private key file.
Martin Olsen almost 14 years

@mklhmnn: It should: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1443983
Mike L. almost 14 years

I'm 100% sure that Nautilus on my Ubuntu 10.4 does NOT ask for the private key file. Maybe it expects it at some location, but it does NOT ask. I don't want to use command line to tell Nautilus the private key file - that's why I want to use a GUI SSH client.
Massey101 over 13 years

Just open Nautilus, press Ctrl+L and type sftp://...
Massey101 over 13 years

I have just tried — it doesn't ask for private keys, it just uses them (the same set of keys which ssh cmdline client or ssh-agent or seahorse would use; it resides in ~/.ssh/).
Lizz over 11 years

Your approach would work for the command line/shell, but the user is asking for a GUI solution. Do you know of one?
psusi about 10 years

You certainly shouldn't be running it was root.