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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
Year Founded
2000
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Praha, CZ
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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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Austin O.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good Quality Solution"
It is easy to use, and support is always good.
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WinSCP Pros and Cons

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Kubendra Reddy M.
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Data Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

The best I like is its graphical interface, you will get all the options just by seeing them. Easy to copy the files to virtual machine from local ans vice-versa. You can navigate through the virtual file system easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Some times it takes too long to get load the files in virtual server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am data engineer, used winscp to connect to unix server and copy the scripts, source files etc to run my etl jobs. In every company I have used this to connect to unix server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WinSCP?

I like the management of users for different connections and integrated into Virtual Machines, so I can transfer files and data from specific applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

The connection sometimes resists and this takes my time, the user interface needs to be improved for multiple jobs together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Manage different PCs from a user platform, data control and file transfer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WinSCP?

No hassle FTP is the best for ec2 instances with various security mechanisms that make our life so easy when it comes to interacting with virtual machines that are hosted on cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Sometimes the session gets lost so you have to login a couple of times but it is worth it as its saving the workspace that you were last on so is quite seam less transition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

FTP on a windows machine and transferring files to ubuntu or other systems. I realized it is very handy with a good UI and easy to implement the transfers it also supports background running tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carmine A.
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IT System Administrator
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

Ease of installation and usage. In addition, it is very convenient for setting up new FTP profiles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

It does limited features considering it is an open-source product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

I wish it would come out with more frequent security updates for Nessus Tenables vulnerability scans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Performing daily file transfers to important clients. Transferring files promptly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WinSCP?

Winscp tool help me to quick transfer of files over the different servers. It has feasibility to provide more security during transfer of the files which i like most in it.

It also help developers to have it for uploading or downloading files at servers. This provides firewall to file transfer and make this more secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

I don't feel any dislike using this tool. But UI is not much user friendly which can be modified to have better user friendly experience with the person using it for the first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

Best ever tool which can be used for file transmission over the organisations with high security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

One of the big problem which personally i feel is solved with this tool is that we can easily transfer big files in no time. As it provides more security during file transfer, this made it more usable at organizational level for any type of transmission of files to either up or downstreams system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prajyoti M.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

I've never had problems with WinSCP updates until now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

secure file transfers between a local computer and a remote server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aditya J.
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

Winscp is being used to transfer the files from local machine to remote servers. We can use this to transfer the files across the servers as well.

The best thing I like about this protocol is, it provides the secure way to transfer the required files across servers. There is not limitation of file size being transferred.

Any size of file can be transferred securely.

There is not any installation required for this tool to use. A very simple with attractive and easy to use interface it provides.

In my current project, I helped me a lot while I had to transfer the patch files across servers to run those parallely to reduce the vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

So far I used, there is some challenges in speed while transferring the files from local machine to remote servers.

I observed that it does not utilizes the full bandwidth of the network in transfer.

Also, I noticed that while transferring the multiple files, the speed of transferring goes decrease. It's bandwidth goes down while multiple jobs are running in the background. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Once upon a time, while I had to transfer multiple patch files accross all the remote servers to execute those parallely to reduce the vulnerabilities, I observed it was taking lot of time being transferred.

Somehow the tool was not utilizing full network bandwidth while transferring.

That is the problem I faced. As a part of solution, I had to cancel the duplicate jobs and then had to run one by one, just to get the files soon. I wanted to start patching as soon as files reached across the servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dylan S.
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Network Manager
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

For file transfers via SFTP or SCP, this is all you need. It doesn't require much setup and can be scripted to work in bulk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Some features are restricted if you are not a donor—for example, automatic upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We've been able to set up automatic file transfers via SCP to multiple devices via batch files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mujtaba S.
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Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

Most easy to use winscp

Easy to maintain reccord

Easy to maintain audit trail

Easy to integrate with T24 banking software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

I use winscp in recent time but didn't find any thing which i dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WinSCP:

Most reliable and easy software for sharing files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

sharing files from one server to another server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Software Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

I think this software works best for creating SFTP sites. It sets up the security and does all the hard work easily. It allows users to generate their own SFTP in order to share data securely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

If a user is unaware of what an SFTP is, then they probably cant use the software without some training first. Nothing else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Allowing end users to share data securely with others. It allows them to create a secure SFTP site to share data and use a secure login. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.