SFTP connection issue

[flayks]

Hello there,
I tested Fileshuttle on Mavericks (10.9.1) and I have a issue to connect with my SFTP account (port 22). I have absolutely no log on the server neither on my Mac.
I also tested the github repo code with XCode but same problem.
Do you have an idea why?

[anthonysomerset]

can you confirm that you can login via a standard SFTP client with the same credentials

if you open Console.app and try uploading again, you might get some useful error output

[flayks]

Yup, with Forklift (my SFTP client) but also with the "sftp" command line, it works.
I tried to get some log on Console.app but I have no error… don't know why.

— http://dl.flayks.com/fileshuttle-sftp.mp4

(using fileshuttle-2.x-dev.zip)

[flayks]

Did you saw something about this problem? (maybe a bug?)

[techdubb]

I also can't connect to my server using sftp. Filezilla and sftp work fine.

Thoughts?

[frdmn]

@flayks @h0ke Can you check /var/log/auth.log on your server for any authentication errors?

[techdubb]

No errors, there. but I did see the three Accepted passwords in a row for my sftp user.

[flayks]

No error too :/

[int2001]

Fileshuttle uses SCP - NOT sftp ! That's a difference and causes problems on ServerSide, if configured as sftp.

SFTP != SCP

[MoOx]

@int2001 what do you mean ? you means that it can't work with sftp connection ?
Getting error too, but no logs anywhere.

[int2001]

@MoOx SFTP is different to SCP - both are based upon SSH. But they're different. FileShuttle only supports SCP, not SFTP. So there are two ways to solve this issue:

Way 1.) Fixing the Documentation and Caption inside the App from SFTP to SCP.
Way 2.) Implement REAL SFTP into the Application.

[MoOx]

@anthonysomerset are you open to such improvements ? Not sure what it the state of the app right now.

[julienma]

hey, weighing in on that topic, it's far easier to set up a proper SFTP server than SCP.
Unfortunately I don't have any knowledge in osx app, but let me know how I can help implementing real SFTP.
Would anyone like to work on that, Cc @anthonysomerset?

[julienma]

I quickly had a look at source, and as said, I know nothing about obj-c.
However I found this in https://github.com/FileShuttle/fileshuttle/blob/master/MVSFTPFileUpload.m#L185

scpBinary = @"/usr/bin/scp";

As scp and sftp both have the same syntax for uploading files, do you think SFTP would work if we changed it with:

scpBinary = @"/usr/bin/sftp";

?

[julienma]

Bah, forget my previous comment, sftp cannot upload without logging into some kind of interactive shell.

[anthonysomerset]

closing this in favour of resolving #18

Going to Move current SFTP logic to SCP and create a new proper SFTP logic based on an SSH2 lib (probably NMSSH - although i haven't ruled out the Idea of using ConnectionKit as would also kill the AWS S3 stone in #13

all this is going in to the v3.x branch at this time - i have yet to release a dev build at this time