WinSCP Interaction

Tom - Thu 26/02/2015 11:48:34 CET +0100

In WinSCP I have a connection to one of my network devices. This works fine and is configured as File Protocol: SCP.

When I try to open the same connection using SHIFT + F3 from within Kitty I get:
'Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?'
The network device doesn't support SFTp, but does support SCP.

Why does this work from within WinSCP, but not when called from within Kitty ?

Thanks

Carl - Wed 04/03/2015 14:32:35 CET +0100

Hi,

This is because the default is use SFTP, and your device only supports SCP. Also, KiTTY start WinSCP with DEFAULT config, then it tries to connect using SFTP instead of SCP.

Cyd - Thu 05/03/2015 08:51:24 CET +0100

You can change this default behavior by adding these lines in your %APPDATA%/KiTTY/kitty.ini configuration file:
[KiTTY]
WinSCPProtocol=scp

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