Servers are just another drive.

A tree of your servers with folders, filter and drag and drop, and a form that saves host, user, secrets, login script and drive-bar mark in one step. The servers you mark appear in the drive bar.

An SSH server opens in its home folder; sftp://<connection>/<path> works in the path prompt. Rights and owner columns, long listings shown as they arrive, one TCP connection for every channel of the session.

FTP servers open from the drive bar, the manager or ftp:// and ftps:// in the path prompt. One connection for listings, two for transfers by default; a plain FTP session warns that password and data travel unencrypted.

An unknown host key or a certificate your system does not trust is decided in a dialog and pinned per server. If it changes later, rCommander refuses to connect instead of asking you to click through.

F5 and F6 between a local and a server panel run as queue jobs. Files are written as <name>.rcpart and renamed when complete, sizes are checked before a move removes its source, timestamps and permissions are kept on request.

Between two server panels rCommander reads and writes at once through four 256 KiB buffers: SFTP to SFTP, FTP to SFTP, FTP to FTP, two servers or one. A failure says whether the source or the target went away.

A lost connection is retried with growing waits and the file continues where it stopped (REST and APPE on FTP). After a restart the jobs that were running and those that still waited are offered again.

Ctrl+N opens a dialog for host, port, user, password or key file. Unsaved, its secrets live only for this run; tick "save as connection" to keep it.

rCommander reads your ~/.ssh/config, shows every host before it imports it and takes key files into the vault on request. A second import adds nothing twice.

rCommander signs in through ssh-agent or Pageant when you prefer to keep keys out of its vault. Private keys in OpenSSH, PEM, PKCS#8 and PuTTY .ppk format can be stored in the vault as well.

An unprotected .rdm export brings its SSH, PuTTY, SFTP and SCP entries with their folder structure, previewed first and never duplicated. Passwords are not taken over.