When the script asks you about 'install sshd as a service', answer yes When the script asks about 'local user', answer yes. When the script asks you about 'privilege separation', answer yes. (5) Open a cygwin window (by double clicking the icon), a black screen pops open, type Select the Path variable and click the 'Edit' button:Īppend c:cygwinbin to the end of the existing variable string.

(4) Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables (3) Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Environment VariablesĬlick the 'New' button to add a new entry to system variables: Size of the basic cygwin system is about 40 Meg, this may take a while if you have a slow connection. When a selection screen comes up, click the little View button for 'Full' view ,įind the line ' OpenSSH', click on the word 'skip' so that an appears in Column B,Ĭlick to start installing cygwin and ssh. When it asks for ' Local Package Directory', type c:cygwin (2) Download cygwin’s setup.exe from and save setup.exe in c:cygwinĬlick Start…Run…and type c:cygwinsetup.exe (1a) Login as Administrator (Windows XP – login as a user with Administrator privilege). The ssh server is an emulation of the UNIX environment and OpenSSH to Windows, by Redhat, called Cygwin

How to install a sftp server on a Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003 How to install a ssh server (called sshd, from OpenSSH) on a Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003 Works like charm.Īll this was done my be at no cost. This would work with these protcols as well.īelow are the instructions I used. Not sure if we have clients that would use IMAP or POP or SSH. A free client that supports SSH connections. I have this running on a IIS 6 server on Windows 2003 std. I had to setup this for a friend of mine and cheap was on his mind.

Filezilla ssh window