When I was working on a litle project at sourceforge I had a little webspace there on their site (quite some time ago), but they did not allow ftp access at the time. Ultimately someone had recomended a gui interface which allowed shell access. Basically, it had much similarity to a windows explorer, but had quick command buttons for common command line inputs, and was strictly SSH.
I have since lost that neat little program, and can not remember the name of it so I can find it again. Anybody out there ever use it, or something similar? If I were to put a name on it, it would be something like linux ssh explorer for windows.
