MacOS Catalina - sFTP Server Possible?

[chrfr]

No, it is not. It is not a joke.

If this talk is about sFTP server running on a Mac so Dockerization could provide it easily: Docker container with mounted volumes. Just I see there a lot of user complains sFTP (server?!) is very hard to install on Mac now: so, Docker might be an option then.

There's nothing to install on a Mac to get an sftp server running- it's already there when enabling "Remote Login" in the Sharing System Preferences. Configuring a Docker instance just to get access to files is a laughably complex solution to something that already works and is built into the OS.

 

[chrfr]

It looks like it disconnects after about 20 seconds? Unsure what's going on...it appears to connect initially. Thoughts?

A late reply to this old post, but the default idle disconnect timeout in FileZilla is 20 seconds. If you want that to be longer, set a different interval in the FileZilla preferences.

 

[Stephen.R]

My question has nothing to do with running an sFTP server locally (like in Docker). I am simply trying to connect to an sFTP server (1and1.com). It is funny though I can connect to another sFTP server and also do ssh to the other server. So it has something to do with 1and1 and Catalina and ssh (because I can't ssh into 1and1 either)

If you can connect to other servers via ssh and sftp ok, but you can neither ssh nor sftp to the 1and1 server, it sounds pretty clearly like there is either a configuration issue (i.e. do they use a custom port? is the username correct? does it require public/private key authentication rather than password authentication?

Can you connect to the 1and1 server from a different machine?

 

[brock-2021]

I tried both - Filezilla and Cyberduck. And got the same result with both.

 

[chrfr]

I tried both - Filezilla and Cyberduck. And got the same result with both.

As the post above yours mentioned, if neither sftp or ssh are working to that server, I'd suspect something is not configured properly on that particular server.

 

[Stephen.R]

I tried both - Filezilla and Cyberduck. And got the same result with both.

Have you checked the 1and1 documentation/help/support about accessing it via sftp? Have you accessed that account/server from any other computer via sftp?

 

[rockdirector]

Here’s my ghetto sFTP setup:

1. Create a sharing-only user in System Preferences>Users & Groups
2. Control click the newly created user tile to get Advanced Options
   • change the shell to /bin/sh or your preference
   • choose or create a directory folder for the share
3. Set the permissions for the newly shared directory to rw for the new user (or ro or whatever you need)
4. Turn on remote login in System Preferences>Sharing
   • allow access for All Users
   • or create a group in step 2 to only enable select
5. This will work with localhost, setting your firewall and/or nat-pmp is up to you