Setting up an SFTP Server on Windows (Server) with OpenSSH (using Microsoft's port of OpenSSH) 

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Thank you so much, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Excellent tutorial. I was able to modify what you taught me to create a SFTP server in Azure with multiple users.

Very well done. A bit fast, but I think that was needed for how much there is to cover. I also really appreciate how you described what your commands did as you typed them. Good luck and stay healthy/safe.

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Thank you very much for this video, was extremely helpful for me as I've never setup OpenSSH/SFTP. I did want to note for others, MAKE SURE you're in C:\ProgramData\ when adjusting the config file, I was adjusting the C:\Program Files config for an hour or so wondering why I couldn't lock down root access.

Excellent .. I was trying to find the correct process for two months and your same my job. Not sure how to thank. All the very best

superb man! would love to see more informative videos.

Well done Sir, an excellent example well executed. Thank you.

Hi I have been setting up an sftp server for the last 2 weeks and your video has really helped

Thank you so much.it helped me a lot to set up SFTP. Please create some more descriptive videos on its different possible configurations in the config file.

Really useful video! Thank you for sharing knowledge.

Thank you so much, you saved me hours of troubleshooting.

What a great explanation, thanks a lot! You saved me :) I did this installation step by step for the one of the Global company I do provide consultancy and I just want inform other colleagues these: If you get an "Connection Closed (WSARecv error in .ssh\logs file)" error message after 16:07 sftp username@localhost step; You can add OpenSSH folder path to the Environment Variables path section. - run sysdm.cpl via Run - At the Advanced tab Click Environment Variable - Edit the Path section and add your C:\Program Files\OpenSSH path as well via the Browse option, and try again, solved.

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Thanks for this - very helpful. I did get a permission denied error when first trying to connect, this was due to the security permissions on the authorized_keys file. If any other user has read/write access to it you must remove them.

Thanks, I had some issue, but with DEBUG3, I was able to solve it :)

Thank you, a great tutorial, really helped.

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Muito obrigado!

You can find SSH Server under Apps and Features - Optional Features.After that the binaries are under: c:\windows\system32\Openssh

Thanks help me soo much

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Great Video! I do have a question about the way users connect: Is there a way to change the host name to an Alias or something different? I don't want my external users to use the server name to connect.

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Hello Sir, Great Tutorial. easy to follow and very informative. Thank you. I've one question regarding authentication though! I've to provide the user credentials to another (remote) party to update data on the incoming folder. depending on the working conditions the remote party may use different devices to access the folder. So far in your example we had to add the remote party's public key into user1's autorized_keys files. Is there are way to let the remote party to login without this restriction and simply using the user1's credentials? Thanks again.

thanks . Very useful information. From what version of windows is openssh ported?

One more question, Is there a way where I could send files using from a remote VM using WinSCP to this machine with OpenSSH??

@Productivity for Programmers I can successfully access the SFTP with local account. However, when I try with domain accounts, it's faling. Could you please suggest what should I check?

Thank you for this detailed tutorial I have followed the steps but getting stuck at 16:48 where it lists the files in the users profile and not the ChrootDirectory. I did get the fingerprint prompt. I am doing this on Windows Server 2019. Any suggestions?

can network location be given in sshd_config file ? I want files to go on mapped network drive on ssh server

Hi, Thank you very much for this video. It is very helpful really appreciate. I did everything as per the guidance, but I am having an error of 'connection closed' while connecting to the sftp server from another client. I tried disabling firewall, adding a port 22 rule and folder permission. Do you have any idea about how to fix it or what goes wrong?

Thanks for the great tutorial, it certainly have helped lot. However at some point some of us would get Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive) usually after we try to connect using app or winscp (we load our private key in winscp and put our public key in authorized_keys). After the failure using winscp, it will never recover even u generate the keys again at server. Logs 524 2021-04-18 20:21:03.350 Authentication refused. 524 2021-04-18 20:21:03.350 Failed publickey for ftpuser from 127.0.0.1 port 50179 ssh2: RSA SHA256:CxUWTS2/lpAQln1EwEvkNSrOnxg+nW3FGxjCzOLogvo 524 2021-04-18 20:21:03.381 Connection reset by authenticating user ftpuser 127.0.0.1 port 50179 [preauth] For me i need to remove the user and redo again till screwed up again by other app. I have been working it for hours :(

Hey it’s a great video for deploying sftp in windows server . I do have a question how do I restrict other users for sftp public access pls advice .

Hello, great video ..I have two questions please. 1) How can I allow AD authentication for users? So I would not have to set up a password for them. 2) If AD authentication is not possible, I notice that users only have access to the sftp, ONLY when they belong to the administrators group on the server. Can this be modified?

Hi there ;) I have a little question: Situation that you have many folders and many users to see this folders. I try with Match Group, and works.... but if you have other folder with the some user ...in my case only matchs the first line. Have any solution for this cases. thank you

At 16:47 what did you put in as the fingerprint? You typed something, but I don't know what you typed? (I don't know what a fingerprint is)

Sir can we add this folder to Active Directory group or access can provide from AD users single

Hi, Thank you for the video. I am getting the below error. Can you let me know what is the reason? C:\WINDOWS\system32>sftp newuser@localhost Connection reset by ::1 port 22 Connection closed

16:52 Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? Warning: Permanently added 'localhost' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. user2@localhost: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

Hi did you have any guide to create public and private key

hi I an using an App called “Documents” on ios, I have the option to choose a “private key” file, but I dont know what private key I should provide, so I continued, and it shows that I do not need to provide any key, as long as I have a valid username and password, I was able to connect to my sftp server. Does this mean that my connection is unsecure?

If i want to restrict sftp user from running rm rmdir command then what need to do..?

when I try to connect using the sftp user@localhost command, it goes through but it doesnt change the cmd to sftp, it just stays as the current directory. I also cant connect using filezilla. Can someone help me?

First of all, thank you for this video. This has cleared 90% of my doubts. It's a great video explaining everything. Thanks to you, I successfully created an sftp server on my laptop. I need to connect to that sftp server via Data Factory. But I get a TimeOut error. Can you do a video on setting up an sftp linked service in Azure Data Factory, please?

Thank you for this great tutorial. Every thing works just fine without integration of any third party! One question: Is it possible to replace user1 with the already existing user instead, and if so how to manage that ? Many thanks in advance.

This a really great video! wow! I can do everything righ untill 20:29 ... but then, I try connecting to the sftp server from a linux machine by typing "sftp user@ip" and I get timed out ... can you help plz ? is there a particular setup for the machine that is trying to connect ? thank you very much :)

How can I configure many users to log in sftp? I tried to make it, bu I cant. Could you help me?

I want to know if I change the log to local, what is the path to check

Hi sir it helped me lot to setup SFTP server. I do have a question you have set chrootdirectory to incoming folder and when you login you are able to see the text file. But my question is I want to see the incoming folder when I loged in using winscp or filezilla. Is that possible?

I have a question. What if I already have a user on my computer how am I going to set a password for that user?

How do I access the SFTP Server over the internet without security risks? Is it safe to port forward 22?

Any help on this - after I put in my password logging in to SFTP I imminently get "connection Closed". Windows 11

Can i create a remote user to have only read access?

I followed your procedure to install the OpenSSH. It only worked using the command window to login and upload a file. But in my Java app, the connection failed with the following stacktrace: com.jscape.inet.sftp.SftpException: cause: java.util.NoSuchElementException: no common elements found at com.jscape.inet.sftp.SftpConfiguration.createClient(Unknown Source) at com.jscape.inet.sftp.Sftp.connect(Unknown Source) I used same user Id and password that I set up in the installation.

pls any one help me how to access one user to more directory

Tthank you, I was able to configure sftp and send files however when trying to sftp to the server the next day, I got the below issue; How can I resolve it? connection reset by port 22 connection closed Thanks in advance.

Hi sir, can we use putty

Hello A friend tryed to connect to the IP but got timed out eveytime. Can somebody help?

i did all the steps. but i getting error connection closed. unable to open sftp

16:37 Once i put sftp EWFTP_BO@localhost, it gives me the error --> 'sftp' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Could you please let me know how can we fix it ?

14:50 my error stays and I have changed the "y" missspelling

super noob here--does this work for people outside of my internal network? What steps do i need to take to let people outside of my home network connect via SFTP?

How to allow Sftp but disallow Ssh in Server22?

When i set passwordAuthentication to NO, i cant connect anymore. It cant match public key. How does it come we got exacly same set config but it doesnt work ? Any idea ? :C

Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). Connection closed. The only way it works for me is when PasswordAuthentication set to yes.

Hello, Thanks for the helpful sftp config. I finished all the config but when I tried to sftp I got an error as shown below. Please advise:: C:\Windows\system32>sftp sftpuser@localhost kex_exchange_identification: banner line contains invalid characters Connection closed. Banner has default value "none" with # at the beginning

Excellent Video however you still logging as a user1 from remote machine , not as uploaduser .

i have no files on my ssh directory on 10:34

Hello , thanks alot for your channel and its really helpful, here am facing an issue... see password auth is working but soon i enable the passwordless its not woring fro unix to windows .. the remore pub key has been added to the the authoozed_key store ... getting the below errors.. can u please suggest on this .. [user@****done]$ sftp user@testserver Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer [user@**** done]$ sftp testserver Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer [user@**** done]$ sftp sftpuser@testserver Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

I am keep receiving Permission denied (public key error). When I further analysed I got to know if any user accessed the local user or its .ssh it's throwing this message. I also found if any user except administrator or my local user access the .ssh, this error is appearing. How I can restrict other users accessing my user or .ssh folder.I am in critical deliver of this project where I m stuck now and not able to progress. Please help me asap. Also can you provide me your email address I will send you screenshot. Please assist urgently

Microsoft Windows does not have a built-in SFTP server. This video is very helpful, esp. if you are tech-savvy. For many small businesses, it could still be challenging as you need to make it accessible from the Internet, thus you need to properly secure your computer and you need to have a static IP address. It might be easier and better to use a cloud based SFTP server, which can be setup instantly and you don't need to be tech-savvy. Please watch this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iGdBX4F1e-w.html

Hi, so I am stuck at around 16:45 , when I type sftp user1@localhostinto the command window of this user I get the following: C:\Windows\system32>sftp user1@localhost user1@localhost's password: Connection closed I don't know what is causing this and I thought you might be able to help, thanks in advance.

Thanks so much for the tutorial! I'm running into one problem though, I am immediately disconnected from the server when running sftp, any help would be appreciated. Note, if I comment out #ForceCommand internal-sftp in sshd_config I am able to use ssh, just not sftp. C:\Windows\system32>sftp -v user1@localhost OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.1p1, LibreSSL 3.0.2 debug1: Connecting to localhost [::1] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_rsa type 0 debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1 debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1 debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_xmss type -1 debug1: identity file C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.6 debug1: match: OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.6 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000 debug1: Authenticating to localhost:22 as 'user1' debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256 debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: compression: none debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: compression: none debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:hT4UxhDQoYC25hARc6GBXsN3uVonz62ag49/SkwE3Jo debug1: Host 'localhost' is known and matches the ECDSA host key. debug1: Found key in C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks debug1: pubkey_prepare: ssh_get_authentication_socket: No such file or directory debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:AXOvIT/v1lYiG4VS41HeHQFdaB8Cacjau0ogD8Z6hlM debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_ecdsa debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_ed25519 debug1: Will attempt key: C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_xmss debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs= debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:AXOvIT/v1lYiG4VS41HeHQFdaB8Cacjau0ogD8Z6hlM debug1: Server accepts key: C:\\Users\\user1/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:AXOvIT/v1lYiG4VS41HeHQFdaB8Cacjau0ogD8Z6hlM debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey). Authenticated to localhost ([::1]:22). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: pledge: network debug1: client_input_global_request: rtype hostkeys-00@openssh.com want_reply 0 debug1: Sending subsystem: sftp debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0 Connection closed debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype eow@openssh.com reply 0 debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1 Transferred: sent 3144, received 2924 bytes, in 0.1 seconds Bytes per second: sent 23371.3, received 21735.9 debug1: Exit status 1 C:\Windows\system32>

Great Video, I am having issues with a remote user though. The remote user is the only public key in authorized_keys file, on connecrion it shows the key passes but the connection does not start, any ideas?

Hello, when I try to connect using user1 it says Permission denied. Please help.