filezillasftpssh-tunnelwindows
Is there any way to configure FileZilla on Microsoft Windows so that it connects to an SFTP server through some SSH tunnel?
E.g., with WinSCP, I can do the following:
I don't want to have to launch the SSH tunnel another program such as PuTTY or running e.g. ssh -D 443 -v -N -L 443:my_server.org:22 franck50@my_server.org then
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I can see three options (with PuTTY).
A (probably obvious) simple solution (while not so user friendly) is to create two profiles in PuTTY.
As you are already using WinSCP, you can use it as a connection manager for PuTTY.
Once you are connected to the target server with WinSCP (which forwards the port behind the scenes), just use "Open in PuTTY" command to open PuTTY connection to the target server via the tunnel opened by WinSCP.
(for tunneled connections, you unfortunately cannot use "Open in PuTTY" straight off the Login dialog)
In PuTTY, you can create a profile with tunneling using "local proxy command". In that command, you can use plink tool (from PuTTY package) to create a tunnel using -nc switch.
Normally the proxy command cannot have any UI (as it's a hidden console application), so public key authentication (that has no prompts) is needed. But as it's quite often, that you need some GUI for the authentication, there are clones of Plink that do the authentication with GUI. Those are commonly used with versioning software (like Git, SVN, CVS), which internally use those Plink clones as an SSH transport.
For example, you can take TortoisePlink.exe from TortoiseSVN project, to can create a proxy command like:
C:\\path\\TortoisePlink.exe %user@%proxyhost -nc %host:%port
(note the double backslashes in the path)
The above will grant you an experience like this:
Best Answer
No, FileZilla does not have the "Tunnel" feature of WinSCP.
But you can use an external tunnel: How to use FileZilla to connect with indirect remote server?