Secure File Replication

Does any vendor make a cryptographically secure file replication
application? I would like to have some basic support for certificates to
authenticate each end and the ability to run the service on each end some
non privileged user account. I have a member server in a DMZ that I need
to exchange files with, and I want the file exchange to happen immediately
and automatically when a user just drops a file onto a folder on a drive.
The user would then be able to go to the same drive letter on their
workstation in the internal network and see the file they had dropped,
magically transported to the internal network (or vice versa).

SSH, secure ftp, etc, are programmer and administrator tools, and probably a
stretch to train the level of person who is the user for this application.

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Will

Arlo
Wed Feb 28 10:55:20 CST 2007

"Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in
news:Ff2dnWgQV5dZo3jYnZ2dnUVZ_sqdnZ2d@giganews.com:

> Does any vendor make a cryptographically secure file replication
> application? I would like to have some basic support for
> certificates to authenticate each end and the ability to run the
> service on each end some non privileged user account. I have a
> member server in a DMZ that I need to exchange files with, and I want
> the file exchange to happen immediately and automatically when a user
> just drops a file onto a folder on a drive. The user would then be
> able to go to the same drive letter on their workstation in the
> internal network and see the file they had dropped, magically
> transported to the internal network (or vice versa).
>
> SSH, secure ftp, etc, are programmer and administrator tools, and
> probably a stretch to train the level of person who is the user for
> this application.
>

I think I'd do something like Filezilla server coupled with WinSCP. You
can script everything with WinSCP save for the actual acceptance of the
certificate. A quick google search will turn up several SFTP clients that
will do similar operations. Could your users handle a double click on a
batch file and a password entry to sync the files up?

Regards,

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R. Arlo Clizer

Will
Thu Mar 01 14:48:09 CST 2007

"Arlo Clizer" <aclizer@online.googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98E55AC3D9E3Ftr0jan@207.46.248.16...
> "Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in
> news:Ff2dnWgQV5dZo3jYnZ2dnUVZ_sqdnZ2d@giganews.com:
>
> > Does any vendor make a cryptographically secure file replication
> > application? I would like to have some basic support for
> > certificates to authenticate each end and the ability to run the
> > service on each end some non privileged user account. I have a
> > member server in a DMZ that I need to exchange files with, and I want
> > the file exchange to happen immediately and automatically when a user
> > just drops a file onto a folder on a drive. The user would then be
> > able to go to the same drive letter on their workstation in the
> > internal network and see the file they had dropped, magically
> > transported to the internal network (or vice versa).
> >
> > SSH, secure ftp, etc, are programmer and administrator tools, and
> > probably a stretch to train the level of person who is the user for
> > this application.
> >
>
> I think I'd do something like Filezilla server coupled with WinSCP. You
> can script everything with WinSCP save for the actual acceptance of the
> certificate. A quick google search will turn up several SFTP clients that
> will do similar operations. Could your users handle a double click on a
> batch file and a password entry to sync the files up?

I thought Filezilla Server was FTP not SFTP?

My users are coming in on Terminal Services and are locked to a single
application and have no opportunity to click anything. They can save a
file from the application, and I need it to mysteriously appear on their
local network.

Does FileZilla server support an Rsync or something similar? I guess we
could run a scheduled task once every minute to resync local file system
against an SSH server?

I just hate the way you have to integrate all the pieces that don't quite
work together. It becomes a four hour project and I don't have the four
hours.

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Will