[NTLUG:Discuss] Script SCP to Windows 2008 Server

[Fred Hensley]

How about Winscp scripting?   (Assuming you can install Winscp on the
Win2k8 box)  I read somewhere that Winscp has a scripting mode.

Haven't personally tried it, but might be worth looking into until your
IT group comes back to their senses.. :)

On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 09:11 -0500, Michael Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
> > On 10/12/2011 03:59 PM, Michael Barnes wrote:
> >>
> >> We have an old Linux FTP server that is long overdue replacement.
> >> Unfortunately, our corporate IT folks are replacing it with a Windows
> >> 2008 Server box running some kind of Windows FTP server on it.  I've
> >> got about 40 shell scripts that send big files to the server every
> >> day.  I've been using scp with shared keys so no password is needed
> >> and it works great.  Any ideas on what to use that is as easy to set
> >> up and doesn't need passwords in the scripts I can get to work with
> >> the Windows FTP server?
> >
> > Does it have to be FTP?  What about using Samba to connect to a Windows file
> > share?
> >
> 
> I'd rather not do that over a public Internet path.  It would have to
> be sharing over 30 folders.
> The Windows shares would have to be locked down as to what could
> access them.  Too much of a security problem.
> 
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