What is a program similar to WinSCP?

Question

In Windows I use WinSCP to transfer files server-side. It has a very attractive feature that I like best: keeping remote folders up to date.

This means, whenever my local file is changed, WinScp will replace the same file on the server with this new file.

Could you suggest me software that support this feature?

Answer 1

Nautilus the default file browser has the feature of mounting remote files.

Go to File Menu > Connect to Server..

Other than than I guess filezilla and gftp support sftp.

Answer 2

You want "scp". The original scp :-)

Oops, I spoke too soon... you have requirement of syncing as well. In that case, rsync.

However, scp is still good for scripts and automation.

Answer 3

You could also use sshfs or rsync.

sshfs mounts your remote directory locally over ssh very similar to winscp and nautilus.

The potential advantage of sshfs is that you can map users

sshfs -o idmap=server_user user@server:/directory ~/remote_directory

To automate the process, add an entry in fstab

sshfs#user@server:/directory /home/your_local_user/directory fuse idmap=user 0 0

See Ubuntu Wiki SSHFS

rsync will also sync files / directories and will work over ssh and has a graphical front end, grsunc

See Ubuntu wiki rsync

Last you can edit remote files with vim (if you are interested)

vim scp://user@server//path_to/file_to_edit

Answer 4

You can still use winscp under wine. I am doing the same, and it works very good.

Answer 5

Since you are familiar with Winscp on Windows, I suggest that you try filezilla

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

You can also install with the command line. Open terminal Ctrl+Alt+T and run following command:

sudo apt-get install filezilla

Or search on Filezilla in Ubuntu Software Center.

When you add a host, be sure to change from FTP to SFTP, and change the port number to ssh port 22 (or other custom ssh port if different)

Make the account type interactive.

Enjoy.

Answer 6

There are many different tools which would give a similar experience as winscp. I use filezilla for transferring files across ssh.

Nautilus as mentioned by @sagarchalise allows for connecting to server.

One of the things I use more often these days to access sftp is sshfs. I find it very convenient as it mounts the files as local file in the filesystem and transparently updates it on the remote server.

sshfs username@remotehostname.tld:/path/to/remote/files /path/to/local/mountpoint/

It lets me use all my usual tools assuming these file are local files.

Answer 7

You can also try unison to help synchronize the two folders

Answer 8

Ubuntu:

Open Nautilus and type (in the link bar): sftp://user@server/

Kubuntu:

Open Konqueror and type (in the link bar): fish://user@server/

Xubuntu:

Open Thunar and type (in the link bar): sftp://user@server/