SFTP clients for Windows is used to securely transfer and access files. It uses encryption of both data and commands to ensure secure transfer over any network.
Swish - SFTP client - was created in 2007.
Any of them can be used. Windows XP or Windows 7 is recommended. Mainly for driver compatibilities.
The SFTP port is used for secure logins, secure file transfer and port forwarding. It can be found on port 22 of the TCP protocol. The name of this port stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol.
WinSCP is a ftp, scp and sftp client that is make for Windows, not Mac. However, there are several alternatives available for the Mac that perform the same function very well.
Network Level Authentication is used to authenticate Clients and servers to the network in Windows XP. It is also used to establish a remote desktop connection.
You definitely need LDAP to mix Windows clients and Linux systems together since they do not share the same authentication technique. You can configure a Samba system to be a domain controller for Windows clients, which would give you the single-signon approach.
NTLM
The Mixed mode is for networks that have Windows 98/ME in addition to Windows 2000/XP/2003 clients. Mixed mode requires the RAC (Remote Application Client) to be installed for proper communication with the clients. The Native modeis for networks that consist only of Windows 2000/XP/2003 clients. The CMS server communicates natively with the clients using Windows networking features that aren't available in 98/ME clients. The RAC program is not needed. If you have no or few 98/ME clients, choose this option.
a lot of big businesses use UNIX and Linux for servers, and windows for clients
TCP
Windows Media Connect can be used for quite a number of various purposes. Its primary purpose is to share and stream media to a number of separate clients of Windows Media Connect.
Like SCP, SFTP also piggybacks on SSH and utilizes tcp port 22 as its standard port.