How to connect to “winscp only” server from linux

Question

I recieved "winscp" access to server of my customer, to check some files. I tried to connect via ssh, however, only response I have got from server was:

WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0

I tried using midnight commander shell link, ftp, sftp. What could I do, to connect to the server?

Answer 1

WinSCP seems to only support the secure copy, SFTP and FTP protocols. Moreover, the result of your SSH connection indicates that shell access to that server is disabled.

In order of likelihood:

1. Try using proper clients (e.g. sftp, lftp, ftp), instead of Midnight Commander - from my experience, mc is not nearly as stable, useful or compatible as a proper client for remote services.

2. You do not mention having tried scp. You should try that, although I would find it weird if any server had only scp enabled, since scp does not allow browsing the remote files - just copying.

3. WinSCP seems to work well with recent versions of WINE, which is available for most Linux distributions...

4. If all else fails, you could try WinSCP from a Windows virtual machine or even from a real Windows system...