Comments on: Tunnelier, an alternative to WinSCP

By: shina

shina — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:40:05 +0000

please can you help me with tunnelier password

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:24:17 +0000

Hi Jonathon,

I’m not sure either how to make Tunnelier edit files. There may be some settings on the application to assign a default editing program? At the moment I’m only using it when I want to transfer a large file (which will take a substantial amount on the CPU)

As for WinSCP, you’ll probably have to set-up a “secure passwordless SSH connection”. Lots of guides available on this if you are interested on the net (Google)

At the moment FileZilla only supports an FTP connection Hopefully they will, in the future as I’ve been using FileZilla too.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:14:53 +0000

But I can’t edit files using Tunnelier. In WinSCP I can click a file and it will open in whatever program I have associated with that filetype, so I can edit a php file in SciTE or Notepad++, then click save, and it will save straight to the remote server.
Still I want an alternative to WinSCP because, although it would automatically reconnect if I saved my password, it warns against saving your password. Guessing, it seems Tunnelier stores the password for the duration of the session – it doesn’t save it permanently, but it keeps it ready to automatically reconnect.
My host automatically disconnects SFTP connections at irregular intervals, but usually between 2 seconds(!) and 2 minutes, regardless of whether there is activity or not. Why do they do that? They would prefer I use insecure FTP?
Do you know if:
- I can make Tunnelier edit files? (I like that it uses less CPU and is faster.)
- I can make WinSCP store passwords for the session?
- FileZilla will ever be able to support Secure FTP?

By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:20:10 +0000

Oh :O I didn’t know CuteFTP can now support transferring files on a secure shell environment. Haven’t used CuteFTP for years

Too bad it’s the Professional version though (which I’m sure is not free?)

By: ameo

ameo — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:25:56 +0000

i don’t have any thing against freewares but some of it really sucks ,
and for me i prefer cute FTP

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