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What is WebDrive File Access Client?

WebDrive is a secure desktop application designed to map remote cloud and server storage to a local drive, enabling users to open, edit, and save remote files as if they were stored directly on their computer. This innovative solution simplifies workflows by transforming any supported cloud or SFTP connection into a native desktop experience. By eliminating the need for browser uploads, sync clients, or manual downloads, WebDrive enhances efficiency and user convenience. The application supports over 20 popular protocols and storage platforms, including SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV, SharePoint, Amazon S3, OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive. This broad compatibility offers users a unified file management experience, allowing them to access and manage files across various platforms seamlessly. Changes made to documents are saved in real-time to the source location, ensuring that users always work with the most current version. Additionally, built-in encryption, connection logging, and credential management provide robust security for sensitive data. WebDrive is tailored for both individual professionals and IT teams, making it a versatile tool in various environments. Its capabilities include silent installation, enterprise-wide configuration, and group policy deployment, which are particularly beneficial for organizations looking to streamline their IT processes. The cross-platform support for both Windows and macOS positions WebDrive as an ideal solution for hybrid workforces and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environments, accommodating diverse user preferences and operational needs. Key use cases for WebDrive include mapping cloud storage to a desktop as a local drive, enabling real-time file access and editing from remote servers, and providing secure desktop connections to SharePoint and SFTP. It also facilitates streamlined remote file workflows for distributed teams and supports mass enterprise deployment and IT automation, making it a valuable asset for organizations seeking to enhance their operational efficiency. By consolidating cloud and remote server access into a single, familiar interface, WebDrive significantly boosts productivity while reducing IT overhead. Users can manage files on various platforms, such as SFTP, SharePoint, or Google Drive, with secure, seamless access directly from Windows File Explorer or macOS Finder. This integration not only simplifies file management but also empowers users to focus on their core tasks without the distractions of complex file access methods.

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Product Description

WebDrive lets you edit files on corporate SFTP and SharePoint Servers as easily as editing any file on your computer.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

South River Technologies positions its Titan and WebDrive products as secure, scalable, and easy-to-deploy solutions designed for organizations that require enterprise-grade performance without unnecessary complexity or cost.

Unlike legacy solutions that focus on monolithic deployments or narrow capabilities, our platforms are built to meet modern IT, security, and compliance requirements—from zero-trust architecture to hybrid cloud enablement. We deliver:

Security-first design with NSA-grade encryption, IP whitelisting, and built-in compliance (FIPS 140-2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR)

Clustering and high availability across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments—without requiring third-party add-ons

Event-driven automation to reduce manual intervention, improve file governance, and streamline IT workflows

Flexible deployment options in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud marketplaces or as a perpetual license

User-friendly interfaces that simplify file sharing, DropZone uploads, and desktop integration across remote teams

We differentiate through a unique balance of enterprise security + operational agility, empowering businesses to centralize file exchange and collaboration workflows without sacrificing compliance, usability, or budget flexibility.

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South River Technologies

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South River Technologies is a company that specializes in secure managed file transfer solutions. Their products are designed to facilitate and safeguard the exchange of critical business data for organizations across various sectors. With a focus on security and compliance, these solutions provide features such as secure FTP, secure email, and encryption to ensure data integrity and confidentiality. South River Technologies aims to streamline data communication processes while maintaining robust security protocols.

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WebDrive File Access Client Media

📁 WebDrive – Secure, Seamless File Access for Business See WebDrive in action! This short video shows how WebDrive lets you access, edit, and manage remote files just like local ones—across Google Drive, SharePoint, SFTP, and more

📁 WebDrive Multicloud Management – One Drive Letter, Every Cloud Discover how WebDrive maps Google Drive, SharePoint, and SFTP to a single drive letter—making multicloud file access simple, fast, and secure.

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Dirk Z.

webdeveloper, founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/1/2020

"greatest invention since paperclip because ftp is so seventies"

4.5/5

What do you like best about WebDrive File Access Client?

Excellent FTPS Support, the online.offline mode.

Also, there is real people behind the scene with real good answers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WebDrive File Access Client?

since a year nothing that i dislike, thank you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/27/2020

"Webdrive is a convenient way to access files on a diversity of architectures"

4.5/5

What do you like best about WebDrive File Access Client?

It provides single-route access to files stored on machines with different architectures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WebDrive File Access Client?

I don't dislike anything about WebDrive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WebDrive File Access Client:

When running from Windows, use it *with* their network file access procedures, rather than as an alternative Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WebDrive File Access Client solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems are not with WebDrive, but in finding out how to access the files on a given machine. Benefits are convenience, and not having to keep copies of files on lots of different machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food & Beverages

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/1/2020

"WebDrive is a good choice for file sharing"

4/5

What do you like best about WebDrive File Access Client?

Ease of use and performance. Used WebDrive to connect cloud data to RDP session as a lettered drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WebDrive File Access Client?

Occasionally WebDrive lost connection using SFTP and had to restart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Charles S.

Online Advertising Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/18/2019

"Simple access to remote secure files."

3.5/5

What do you like best about WebDrive File Access Client?

When installed, WebDrive functions as simply as Windows Explorer in accessing, copying and transferring files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WebDrive File Access Client?

Setup was a bit problematic, and we've had occasional issues that required involvement by our sys admin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Juergen S.

N/A

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/17/2019

"WebDrive bridges the Linux backend to my Windows IDE"

4.5/5

What do you like best about WebDrive File Access Client?

I don't know what I would do without webdrive and being able to mount sftp drives locally. WebDrive does that very well, at good speed. It is pretty stable.

I also used it for Amazon and google Drive, and it really turns them into local drives usable in any application.

Support is quick and helpful, provides resolutions very fast!

The background transfer of large files and partial file access is great, and it makes apps less blocking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WebDrive File Access Client?

There are a few quirks and bugs, over the years I've reached out to the support several times. There is just one thing I'm having a problem with, it is the lack of case sensitive file naming. It seems to throw of the caching and sometimes not being able to read files or folders until the cache is cleared.

I have also lost a few files in transit, nothing major lost (yet), but it's a little worrisome having a file with all \0's instead of code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Works very reliable for sftp and amazon. SSH Key management is a little quirky, but I somehow figured it out. It has all the settings and tweak you need. ANd you can have so many different connections and protocols. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WebDrive File Access Client solving and how is that benefiting you?

Need to access files from multiple remote Linux systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steve J.

CEO

Management Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/16/2018

"Indispensable for Scholarship Using Citavi and a Personal NAS"

5/5

What do you like best about WebDrive File Access Client?

I love being able to access folders on my QNAP TS-251A NAS using a Windows drive letter, as if the cloud storage were connected directly to my laptop as a local drive. It's also unexpectedly fast, and I often work with large PDF's. Once I set WebDrive up to connect to my NAS, every time that I open Directory Opus (my preferred file manager, although you can use File Explorer or anything else), I can navigate and move files around between folders as easily as if I were working with local folders.

Currently, I use secure FTP. In the future, I plan to set up secure WebDAV, which supports file locking, and will make collaborating with other scholars easier. (We won't risk overwriting each other's changes.) WebDrive supports a variety of protocols, including secure FTP and secure WebDAV.

I especially like that WebDrive shows the user a dialog box with the request/response dialogue from its initial handshaking with a server, so that you can debug any errors. The product has never crashed on me and is transparent. It's far better than a dedicated FTP client.

The most important benefit is that it has made available all 4 TB of remote storage on my NAS to me, as if it were local storage, so that I never have to worry about running out of space on my Microsoft Surface Pro 4. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WebDrive File Access Client?

The properties dialog box, which lets you configure connectivity information for a server, could be improved a little. For instance, there is a section called "General Host Settings," where you enter the IP of the server. Confusingly, you can't enter the port number there. Instead, you have to go to another section, "Connection Settings."

"Connection Settings" is also a bit strange. It has a checkbox: "[ ] Use default port [ ]." If the checkbox is checked, it defaults to port 21 (the default FTP port). If it's unchecked, you can enter another port number. I would move that field to the "General Host Settings" section, eliminate the checkbox, and just let the user enter whichever port they desire, with the default being pre-populated.

In general, I would reorganize the properties dialog box to make it more efficient for the user to set new sites up. I would group the many options differently by focusing on the typical use cases that the user is likely to have, and making those quick and straightforward to get through. I'd also add help text when a user hovers over an option, to explain what some of the less obvious options do.

There is also a limitation that might have something to do with the secure FTP protocol, but I'm uncertain. Some of my folders are named using diacritical marks, for instance: Résumés. However, in WebDrive, that folder appears as: RÃ©sumÃ©s. Perhaps this is because the FTP protocol can't handle Unicode characters. If possible, it would great to get this fixed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WebDrive File Access Client:

If you have a personal NAS or want to be able to mount any cloud storage that WebDrive supports on your computer, WebDrive is the perfect solution. It's inexpensive, fast, stable, and just works. There's no better way to expand limited storage on your personal device than to be able to edit files on the cloud directly, as if they resided on your computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WebDrive File Access Client solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm a graduate student in philosophy at the University of MIssouri-St. Louis. I use Citavi (https://citavi.com/en/) on my Surface Pro 4 to store journal articles and books (PDF's), and enable me to easily and efficiently cite them. Any data loss would be catastrophic, so I store all of my Citavi files on my personal NAS, a QNAP TS-251A, which is also synchronized with a local folder on my Surface using QNAP's Qsync utility.

The problem with this is that research projects can get quite large, and it's easy to run out of local storage space on my Surface. I began investigating ways of accessing files directly on the NAS without synchronizing them, and found WebDrive. Now, I connect Citavi to my NAS using the secure FTP protocol, through WebDrive. This approach lets me use as much cloud storage as I have (4 TB) without worrying about running out of space on my Surface's 256 GB SSD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/16/2018

"WebDrive usage in real world"

5/5

What do you like best about WebDrive File Access Client?

Well, my approach for this review will be as simply as it need to be.

WebDrive just simply works!

Moving several TB's of data between my internal network ftp mapped drives and Internet and... it simply works.

Never got a disconnected drive.

Never got installation drive out of disk space due to log files.

And all of this in trial mode!

Just guessing what i can get in purchased mode :)

Hope this can help you out.

Cheers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WebDrive File Access Client?

For now, 0 (zero) problems.

I will keep using it. I believe that i abuse WebDrive due to the amount of data i move around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WebDrive File Access Client:

Try it!

You won't be disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WebDrive File Access Client solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have some NAS on me, and the easy way i found to keep my work going was to try WebDrive software!

As i stated before, till now i have no problems at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vikramjit Singh R.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/12/2017

"Excellent for connecting to the Secure FTP server "

5/5

What do you like best about WebDrive File Access Client?

Connecting to my university servers and transfer/access of files over a secure SSH connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WebDrive File Access Client?

Nothing. I believe It fulfilled my needs of accessing files remotely over a SSH connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering WebDrive File Access Client:

Seamless access and transfer of files over a secure SSH connection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WebDrive File Access Client solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am a graduate student and do molecular simulation. I typically work with a lot of data and at times have to overview and work with multiple files at a time. All of files (which are a lot) are located on the university servers which I can access remotely using the Webdrive FAS. I am able to Mount SFTP as a virtual drive and access the files, it works like a charm. I can interact with my files and data on the university server in the same way as I would with the files locally stored on my computer. This is very beneficial to me as I do not need to be in the office to access, organize and edit my files and directories and can work from home, on holidays or when I am gone to a conference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.