In Windows I can use WinSCP. In the question What is a program similar to WinSCP?, it says that you can use Nautilus’s built-in function to do this job. But in Lubuntu there’s only PCManFM. I tried to replace it with Nautilus but failed. Is there any simple way for me to have a SCP client in Lubuntu?
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PCManFM supports mounting of network file shares.
In the main menu, select Go > Connect to Server...
I'm not familiar with WinSCP, but I assume it uses SSH. To mount an SSH share, select SSH and fill in the appropriate information, including at least the host, port (if other than 22), and user.
Enter your password and how long you'd like to remain connected:
And you're in! You can browse your files, and open/delete/edit/move them (assuming you have appropriate permissions), all within PCManFM.
If you need a SCP client with a GUI, than you could try filezilla:
sudo apt-get install filezilla
Use sftp as protocol (eg: sftp://myhost) in the Host field as Port 22
Although this has already been checked by the author, I wanted to mention a couple more choices.
First I apologize for items 5. It is command line but interesting. For your question, look at items (1), (4) and (6).
pcmanfm is native to LUbuntu (since you asked about Lubuntu which I use). The answer about PCManFM is very relevant since it already incorporates the requested functionality. From its menu:
Select "GO | Go to Location" Select ssh
To install this filemanager:
sudo apt-get install pcmanfm
Nautilus file manager ships with many distros (and is popular - though not my favorite). It will do what you ask natively.
In the left-hand pane select the
Connect to Servericon. In the server address blank typessh://server_name
It is actually using sftp (you could have typed sftp://server_name) so setting up ssh keys is recommended over passwords, but not required.
Nautilus may be installed on your distro already. If not, you can install it by:
sudo apt-get install nautilus
additionally, there are other things nautilus can do like connect to owncloud, dropbox and much more. For these two:
sudo apt-get install nautilus-owncloud
sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
In general look at the list from the command apt-cache dumpavail | grep Package | grep nautilus to see how extensible it is. I note the nautilus scripting capability.
I suspect that most file managers have similar functionality.
Filezilla which is extremely well explained in an answer above.
gftp has gui functionality that is winscp like, as well. To install:
sudo apt-get install gftp-gtk
sftp - although not a gui it is worth mentioning. You can connect a remote file system over the commandline using sftp. By default this capability is enabled for all users in ubuntu if sftp is installed.
sshfs
-- then use any file manager --my fav. Sshfs is a user space tool for mounting directories on remote servers over ssh. You do not need to be root, just create a directory in your home directory and mount to it, e.g. mkdir ~/data
Installing sshfs:
sudo apt-get install sshfs
Examples of mounting remote directories:
sshfs user@server /local/mount/point
sshfs [email protected]:subdir/another_sub_dir ~/data`
Browse the mounted directory with your file manager. To remove this mount:
fusermount -u /local/mount/point
Remember the local mount point (directory) must exist before you can mount on it -- just like nfs.
Finally, I'm not providing KDE programs since Ubuntu is largely a gnome based file system.
Try using sshfs.
sudo apt-get install sshfs - This command will install sshfs for you.
Then you just need to mount your ssh directory in your local filesystem, like this:
sshfs user@server:/path/to/remote/dir /path/to/local/dir
Where the local dir is the place you wish to mount your remote files. You can then browse your remote files using PCManFM. Hope this works for you.
PS - You can unmount the remote directory like this:
fusermount -u /path/to/local/dir
