Are there any GUI clients for Ubuntu which can remotely connect to another Linux box over SCP?

I heard about the fish:// protocol and Konqueror (which is for Kubuntu using KDE), but I am looking for a simple GUI SCP application for Ubuntu.

11 Answers

If you are used to WinSCP,
one option is to install WINE and use WinSCP itself.

(note: my link is just a reference -- you may want to get the stable WINE release,
If the latest stable release of Wine (currently Wine 1.0.1) works for you,
then you may not want to use these beta packages).

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I guess you are referring to this kind of discussion in your question.
That thread too refers WINE as one of the options (with some notes on crashes in 2007).

At the end is this Nautilus reference,

Ubuntu's Nautilus file explorer works just fine.
Places->Connect to Server and select SSH.

That is probably what Martin refers in his answer.

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Update: for the record, this answer was accepted because it indirectly referred SecPanel.

SecPanel: SSH GUI for Unix.
SecPanel sits on top of SSH software-suites and supports the SSH.com and the OpenSSH-version.

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Since you're trying to use scp I assume there is a an SSH server running on the remote machine. You can directly connect to ssh servers using Nautilus file manager. Just use something like

ssh://username@server:/path/on/remote/machine

in the address bar.

Furthermore, if an SSH server is running you could also use the SFTP protocol for remote file manipulation. Since Ubuntu comes with pre-installed Firefox, the easiest GUI would be the FireFTP-plugin.

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You can use FileZilla on Ubuntu:

sudo aptitude install filezilla

Just make sure you connect using SFTP.

In the top-left corner you have three menus. Select the middle one, and then the entry named something like "Connect to server". Here you'll have a list of available methods, select SSH or SFTP and fill in the details.

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I solved this problem with bareFTP - it is in the Ubuntu repository.

bareFTP works very well. It is better than FileZilla, because for the same server and task, as SFTP-client, this cannot establish the connection.

You could install Krusader.

Krusader is a very powerful commander style GUI file manager for KDE and many other desktop managers such as GNOME.

You can use sshfs.

~$ mkdir tmp
~$ sshfs :Document/Blagues tmp

This will mount the remote Blagues directory to the local tmp directory. Then you can use a regular file browser to go into the remote directory through the local one.

To unmount the directory (make sure that no application is accesing tmp directory or files),

~$ fusermount -u tmp

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To run WinSCP under Linux (Ubuntu 12.04), follow these steps:

1) sudo apt-get install wine (run this one time only, to get 'wine' in your system, if you haven't it)

2) download "Portable executable" from

3) make a folder and put the content of zip file in this folder

4) open a terminal

5) type "sudo su"

6) type "wine WinSCP.exe"

Done! WinSCP will run like in Windows environment!

Best regards.

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I heard about fish:// protocol and konqueror(which is for Kubuntu using KDE)

There is no problem using kde apps when you run gnome and the other way around.

So if you like the idea with konqueror and fish:// then go for it.

Perhaps KSSH will be useful?

I think you can install KSSH without having KDE installed - apt-get will just download some needed KDE libraries.

I just read about this and is very simple. In Nautilus you must go to Connect to server and at address dialog use

ssh://user@server to acces to files via SSH/SCP

ftp://user@server for ftp accesss

sftp://user@server for sftp

smb://server for windows shares