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WinSCP Overview

What is WinSCP?

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client and SCP client for Windows (only for Windows). Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

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WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client and SCP client for Windows (only for Windows). Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.


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WinSCP
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Sathyaseelan C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One Stop Solution for File Transfer"
GUI is always very much user friendly. File transfer is very ease Security at the top level. Multiple levels of security in login page
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Gurudatta B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"WinSCP"
Ease of integration with different softwares like Datastage
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"Good Quality Solution"
It is easy to use, and support is always good.
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Richard W.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

The UI is very intuitive and easy to use and supports SFTP, FTP and other protocols. It also has a drag and drop interface for easily sendingand receiving files from a web server. I really appreciate how it doesn't automatically time-out after a few minutes because even doing web development and code writing, I am constantly making changes as uploading to serve and switching back and forth between software. I also appreciate how it remembers the local and host directories used last. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

At this point there is nothing I dislike about the program. It does everything I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The cost is really inexpensive and the intuitive ease of use makes it well worth your money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use GoDaddy to host our website files, which is actually quite nice and inexpensive. The problem with GoDaddy is its' web-based UI for uploading files - not user friendly at all. So we use WinSCP because it was easy to set up but mostly for its drag-and-drop file upload features. This makes it super easy to use in the development process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chirag A.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

Its a very light and portable software along with a great Graphical User Interface. Moreover it is a open source software which is available free of cost.

It is also very easy to navigate between files and folders using this software. It also have drag and drop feature which makes it very easier to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Only its session got expire very soon. Apart from this I did not see any drawback with this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

It is a very light software and is open source along with very good graphical user interface. Best software for transferring files securely between servers. But the firewalls between two servers should be opened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are transferring files that we received on one of our unix server to windows environment or our local machine and then perform analysis on the data contained in those files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WinSCP?

I can just drag and drop the files from the local to remote and vice-versa without any tedious process and the change is reflected in the server real quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Something that I dislike about WinSCP is probably too many pop-ups for even very small processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

It is an easy to use software. If you feel difficult to write commands in terminal for file transfer, it is the good tool to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using WinSCP to transfer files between the server and local and seeing the changes on the fly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WinSCP?

It's very easy to use, user-friendly and extremely fast speed made me a fan of this excellent tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Nothing specifically I don't like about this tool since I started using this 5 yrs ago. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

I would highly recommend winscp to everyone. It supports different file transfer protocols required by engineers. I think you will get every functionality embedded in this tool compared to other tools designed for the same purpose. The file transfer protocols are very fast, the tool itself is light. Kudos to the developers. It's a must for especially telecom engineers working with scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

When I used in industry 5yrs ago, one of my colleagues recommended this tool for file transfer between a windows machine and Linux server. I liked the tool so much that I still use it even I no longer work in the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WinSCP?

The easiness of use. No doubt about the ease of use of WinSCP. The file transfer is just drag and drop like normal windows and can be done from one server to another. We can save the sessions, including passwords, this saves us a lot of time in logging in each and every time. We can compare directories to check for missing files, this is useful when the directories are huge and copying will take up a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

The only issue with WinSCP is that shell commands do not work in this. And also it is not available for linux and mac. And in a rare occasion while copying file, the encoding changed from UTF-8 to another. This had caused me a lot of problems as this cannot be seen at the time, but only caught while processing. File transfer although great, is comparatively a little slower at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

If you need to connect to remote servers, then this is the application to use. Usage does not get any easier than this. Once you use this, you will not look for any other application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a person working from a different location from the client, WinSCP has been most useful because we can access remote servers from our local machines. Also we can access multiple servers at a time. And once logged in, the sessions can be saved for use in future which eliminates the login process everytime we need to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JD
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

I like the simple 'drag and drop' interface of WinSCP and the customization settings to reflect personal preferences in use. Data transfer is as fast as a CLUI SCP/SFTP transfer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

I dislike that it fails to open ssh account with lots of login print messages (e.g. module loading and server use messages). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

Easy to use and highly recommended for those needing GUI to CLUI data transfer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

This software has helped our laboratory transfer files to and from windows platform to a high-speed server, typically for visualization of graphs in extensions that the ssh software cannot read (e.g. PDF). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anshul C.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

The fact that I can use it independently without opening any extra tab in the VM and copy data from one OS to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

It's UI can be a bit more likeable if worked upon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my daily business needs I use this tool for betterment and utilizing my time efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason G.
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Telecommunications
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

Winscp is secured in terms of uploading/downloading files instead of using regular FTP connection. With WinSCP I can just drag and drop files I wanted to upload and download. Also I can edit text files with the need of command line as I am using WinSCP also to remote Linux machines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Loading time of directory is slow and whenever I upload something it takes lots of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

WinSCP can be a tool for beginners in editing text files on a linux machine. If you are lazy to do it via command line, then do it via WinSCP! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Accessing remote windows and linux clients, making some changes remotely on those. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WinSCP?

WinSCP is a very handy tool for day-to-day server administration. It is a very lightweight client - you don't even really have to install it; you can just run the executable for it. It is a very simple and easy-to-use tool for connection to a server via sftp or ftp and browsing folders and copying files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

I don't really have any dislikes about WinSCP. It is free and easy to use - so what's not to like? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

It is free and it works great! I don't hesitate in recommending that other people use and embrace WinSCP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use WinSCP all the time for our day-to-day server administration. It is very handy for non-linux admins to be able to connect to a linux servers and browse folders and files and also to be able to copy data between two servers as well. Our VMware admins use it to connect to ESX hosts as well in order to copy files back and forth or edit files on the vmware, linux-like OS as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adelle Berzabeth K.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

I like WinSCP because its free. Also with WinSCP, I can upload, download and edit files simply just by "drag and drop" method which is very convenient for a non technical person like me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Only thing I am dissatisfied with WinSCP is that it takes time to load a certain directory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

WinSCP is better than FileZilla! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Accessing remote machines and uploading files on it. It helps all employees here because its easy for us to upload files in our servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.