Comments on: Mount FTP Or SFTP As A Drive In Windows

By: David Plappert

David Plappert — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:22:49 +0000

I just started playing with this because I manage a number of servers that I would like to have file access to without installing and configuring FTP. I am able to use NetDrive like a charm.
-When you go to configure a (new) connection, select FTP
- type 22 as the port (or your ssh port)
- then save
- make sure you have your “file” selected, then click on advance on the bottom
- select SFTP using SSH2 for SSL

Works for me under Windows 7 Ultimate. I am using some stuff in Dreamweaver CS3. I also tested it using Explore (Start -> My Computer -> (drive))

dave

By: L Sco

L Sco — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:33:27 +0000

Hello all

I have just tried Dokan and compared it to SFTPdrive. Dokan works fine except for how excruciatingly SLOW it is. When it takes 20 seconds to return a directory listing you can spend minutes just getting to a directory 3 levels down.

SFTPdrive or ExpanDrive (new name) is quite snappy in comparison, even at the 1.7.9 version I have.

Hope that helps someone.

By: detrol online

detrol online — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:08:52 +0000

That`s all.
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By: Lalit Kapoor

Lalit Kapoor — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:28:57 +0000

Eduard,
Take a look at what Stephen B. said above in the comments, you may want to give this a try: http://dokan-dev.net/en/download/

By: Edouard

Edouard — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:21:44 +0000

Hi again,
Solution is simply to change de default folder of the user in /etc/passw file
Is there a way to automate all this in a windows bash script ?

By: Edouard

Edouard — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:47:32 +0000

Hi,
I tested your solution and it works like a charm. The only problem (but important to me) is that it mount the driver on the user home folder of my server (/home/user/) when I would like to mount it on /home/samba-shared/
Is there a way to change remote default directory.
I tried module.sftp.cwd-remote=/home/samba-shared/ but it seems not to work ?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:01:06 +0000

Thank you so much! This worked perfectly for my needs.

By: Lalit Kapoor

Lalit Kapoor — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:47:25 +0000

Siva: StephenB’s comment may be the best alternative.

By: Siva

Siva — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:03:29 +0000

netdrive has the sftp(ssh) option in advanced section, i tested (winxp sp3) that and its totally unstable

By: Siva

Siva — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:01:43 +0000

Tried this, but still the password is sent in plain text.