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SftpDrive v1.6.0 Released

Jeff Mancuso May 14th

After much delay, SftpDrive Version 1.6 is out the door. The major enhancement is Vista support. Along with Vista, there are many small tweaks for connection stability and various bug fixes that have been added.

Going forward, we are working on SftpDrive for Windows and OS X at a breakneck pace. While we’re excited to have worked on the Slingshot project, SftpDrive remains our focus. Our shortlist includes dramatic speed enhancements, greater interoperability between various SFTP servers, and most importantly releasing the OS X client.

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5 Responses to “SftpDrive v1.6.0 Released”

  1. Daniel Says:
    May 15th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    Hi Jeff !
    Nice work with SftpDrive, it’s indeed a nice piece of software =) I’ve been evaluating it for the 6 weeks and just bought it today. There’s only one thing that I miss on SftpDrive currently: the ability to have a ‘keep-alive’ option (for example, when I work at home, my router (a WRT54G) has some stupid built-in timeout that closes connections that have no activity for a certain period, lets say, 30 mins). So, if I get out for a coffee and stay too long, I find that all the opened files are unaccessible, sometimes Windows messes so badly that I have to even use another drive letter because it won’t recognize the driver anymore, even after a reconnection (I guess this must be some kind of caching problem on Windows’ side ?). Well, if there was an option to make SftpDrive do something on the connection every X minutes, that would be great (I don’t know the SSH protocol, so I don’t know if there’s something like a PING, or just stat() a file/directory to create some socket activity). Thanks !

  2. Jeff Mancuso Says:
    May 15th, 2007 at 1:20 pm

    @Daniel

    There is definitely a few things we can do here for improvement and it’s high on the list of things for us. Sorry for the troubles.
    Glad to have you as a customer!

  3. Dan Says:
    May 22nd, 2007 at 10:11 am

    Glad to hear the news on the osx version. Are we talking 6 weeks or 6 months? I anxiously await! Nice work with the Joyent folks. I have been a Joyent customer for 2 years now and they are great!

  4. Ingemar Says:
    May 23rd, 2007 at 5:01 am

    @Daniel

    “There’s only one thing that I miss on SftpDrive currently: the ability to have a ‘keep-alive’ option”

    “I don’t know the SSH protocol, so I don’t know if there’s something like a PING, or just stat() a file/directory to create some socket activity”

    This functionality exists, at least in OpenSSH. In my (~/.ssh/config) configuration file, I have specified

    ServerAliveInterval 60

    which means that the client will send a keep-alive message through the encrypted channel to the server. This prevents NAT/SPI firewalls from dropping the connection after a certain period of inactivity.

    The same functionality could certainly be implemented by SftpDrive, or even ripped directly from OpenSSH if the codebases are compatible.

  5. dalton Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

    I’m sure many, like myself, are waiting to hear more news on the status of the OS X client. Any way to get on a beta testing list?

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