[mphair]

What I have:
A server that allows SSH but not FTP (for security reasons)
apache2 running on that server
Dreamweaver MX
Putty
The ability to download other free programs if necessary

What I want to do:
use synchronize feature on dreamweaver to connect to my webserver without allowing ftp

How far i've gotten:
ive set up the putty tunneling options as macromedia tells me to in their documentation and the remote info stuff in dreamweaver is all set to what they told me. i click the connect button, a command prompt pops up (i assume that that's plink) i enter in my login information as i would when logging into putty, and it logs in and connects to "loginname@host"
then i go back to dreamweaver, click ok on the dialogue box that popped up and it says "searching for server" for a few seconds, then "waiting for server..." and the bar goes all the way across and....error. Cannot connect to server. i click ok and it says there was an ftp error.

Am i misunderstanding the meaning of ssh tunneling? i was under the assumption that it meant that i didnt have to open an ftp port on my server and that the program would try to ftp to putty wich would connect to my server through ssh thus creating an SFTP connection with the server...
anyone have any ideas?
-mphair

[jiml8]

I don't use dreamweaver so my ability to help you unless you link or copy the instructions you are following is limited.

However, SSH tunneling allows you to send any protocol you choose through SSH. If you wish to send ftp, you have to have an ftp server running on the host to receive the packets after SSH passes them on.

You will only establish an sftp connection if YOU (or your app) establishes an sftp connection and, if you do that, you don't need a tunnel.

[mphair]

right then...thanks for explaining that.
guess i'll just make the files and upload them the "old-fasioned" way
-mphair