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It seems like this is useful for mounting sshfs drives on a Windows client. Anyone know how to achieve the inverse? That is, I have SSH access to a Windows host

by 3np 2y ago

It seems like this is useful for mounting sshfs drives on a Windows client. Anyone know how to achieve the inverse? That is, I have SSH access to a Windows host (no WSL) and would like to access its filesystem over sshfs or scp. How to do git remotes over such a connection would also be helpful because I haven't figured that out, either.

leni536 2y ago
You can install openssh server and client as Windows components nowadays, somewhere from settings. You can set up git remotes just fine with it, I don't remember trying sshfs.
- donatj 2y ago
  It's wild you can SSH into a straight up regular old DOS prompt (or WSL fwiw) with it. There must be some sort of command code translation layer in action to make that work.
  - actionfromafar 2y ago
    With Cygwin you could ssh into cmd.exe on Windows NT 4.0
  - loa_in_ 2y ago
    You can ssh into any shell, it's always determined after the login.
- baq 2y ago
  Setting up authorized keys was a bit tricky IIRC, but otherwise can confirm it’s bundled as part of windows and just works.
- pxc 2y ago
  They're both missing a lot of features, and which features are missing/unsupported is not documented in the tool itself (it just silently fails if you try to use options they haven't ported over, instead of telling you they're unsupported either in the docs or at run time). The client is missing multiplexing (ControlMaster, etc.), for example. The server also has various quirks, including requiring extra configuration to allow SSHing in to administrator accounts. If you can get away with doing everything in WSL instead, you're better off.
beyondCritics 2y ago
sftp always worked out of the box, flawless and intuitively for me. No setup needed.
mctt 2y ago
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/install.121/e22624/preinstall_req_cygwin_ssh.htm#EMBSC150 https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/install.121/e22624/prei...
kijin 2y ago
As long as the machine you are connecting from has a working sshfs, it should be able to mount any path on any host to which you have SSH access.

by 3np 2y ago

leni536 2y ago

You can install openssh server and client as Windows components nowadays, somewhere from settings. You can set up git remotes just fine with it, I don't remember trying sshfs.

donatj 2y ago
It's wild you can SSH into a straight up regular old DOS prompt (or WSL fwiw) with it. There must be some sort of command code translation layer in action to make that work.
- actionfromafar 2y ago
  With Cygwin you could ssh into cmd.exe on Windows NT 4.0
- loa_in_ 2y ago
  You can ssh into any shell, it's always determined after the login.
baq 2y ago
Setting up authorized keys was a bit tricky IIRC, but otherwise can confirm it’s bundled as part of windows and just works.
pxc 2y ago
They're both missing a lot of features, and which features are missing/unsupported is not documented in the tool itself (it just silently fails if you try to use options they haven't ported over, instead of telling you they're unsupported either in the docs or at run time). The client is missing multiplexing (ControlMaster, etc.), for example. The server also has various quirks, including requiring extra configuration to allow SSHing in to administrator accounts. If you can get away with doing everything in WSL instead, you're better off.

beyondCritics 2y ago

sftp always worked out of the box, flawless and intuitively for me. No setup needed.

mctt 2y ago

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/install.121/e22624/preinstall_req_cygwin_ssh.htm#EMBSC150 https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/install.121/e22624/prei...

kijin 2y ago

As long as the machine you are connecting from has a working sshfs, it should be able to mount any path on any host to which you have SSH access.