FileZilla client
OpenSSH server (no gui)
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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Thanks Filezilla is what I was looking for. It seems like it doesn't support SCP (saw in comments in alternativeto) but it's fine for now I really needed SFTP
The built in SSH server will handle the SFTP server for you.
For a GUI program I typically just use Filezilla. It might do SCP (haven't tried) but it definitely does SFTP and has a good enough GUI. Plus it's cross platform so you get the same mediocre ass UI everywhere.
Great thank you
Mint's default file browser has a "connect" menu option that allows you to drag and drop like WinSCP - the only difference is you have to open a second window. You can even bookmark the remote connection. It probably supports SFTP, but I can't check right now.
You mean I can connect and browse sftp/ftp servers with just default file browser? Amazing
I use sshfs and smb and cifs
Can you elaborate please what's smb and cifs?
SMB is the linux version of Windows File Sharing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)
It is rather easy to use. Check out the manual, it is long but actually good. On linux, use smbclient to mount a remote share.
It's also quite easy to set up servers that can be accessed from both Windows and Linux, with lots of options on how to handle/simplify permissions.
CIFS is something similar that seems to be faster, but I've only used it as a client. On Windows, WinSCP works great with it. On linux you can use mount CIFS remote directories locally like this:
mount -t cifs //HOSTNAME/REMOTEPATH LOCALPATH -o username=USERNAME,domain=DOMAIN.
Ask google or a good LLM for the details on this stuff :)