How to Connect a Mac to a Server Using SFTP. A Secure File Transfer Protocol session is similar to a File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, session, but with the added security of encryption.

These steps walk you through the process of setting up an SFTP server on Linux for the secure transfer of files for specialized file transfer-only users.

At this point the SFTP server should be running. When testing the server from a different machine, connect to the IP address shown in the Sharing window.

To create an sftp/scp session to an HPC cluster remote host through the bastion host simply add -J <username>@bastion.wm.edu to your command line between the command and the front end you are ...