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Connecting to an SFTP server

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Connecting to an SFTP server

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- [Instructor] One method of using SFTP to transfer files is by using the command line interface SFTP tool in a terminal or console. To do that, I'll open up a terminal here on my system and then I'll type the command sftp, which is usually available on any system that already has SSH client software installed, which is the case on modern Windows systems, on Macs, and on most Linux systems. After that, I'll provide the information that I'll use to connect to my remote server. In this case, it's my username followed by the @, followed by the server's address. That address could be a numeric IP address like I have here, or it could be a host name or a fully qualified domain name, depending on how your server is set up. Here in my practice lab, I'll just use the IP address. But if I were connecting to an SFTP server that was part of a company network or one that I'm accessing in the cloud, it's more likely that I'd use a fully qualified domain name instead, like myserver.com or…

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