SFTP

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Pramod Srinivasan wrote:

> HI,
>
> I am facing a problem when I try to sftp. It looks like ssh major protocol
> versions on the client and server is 2 and 1, so I get this message "Protocol
> major versions differ: 2 vs. 1" and " Couldn't read packet: Resource
> temporarily unavailable".
>
> In the sftp code, sftp is forcing protocol 2 when it is forking of ssh, and
> when I tried not to force version 2, ssh exits with the message "Exit status 1"
> and sftp throws "Couldn't read packet: Resource temporarily unavailable"
>
sftp is a v2 concept.  You can do sftp -1 to foce a v1 connection, but you
MUST MUST MUST have a sftp-server in the correct location (not unlike scp
setup).

- Ben