What are some good SSH Servers for windows?
Solution 1
I've been using Bitvise SSH Server and it's really great. From install to administration it does it all through a GUI so you won't be putting together a sshd_config file. Plus if you use their client, Tunnelier, you get some bonus features (like mapping shares, port forwarding setup up server side, etc.) If you don't use their client it will still work with the Open Source SSH clients.
It's not Open Source and it costs $39.95, but I think it's worth it.
UPDATE 2009-05-21 11:10: The pricing has changed. The current price is $99.95 per install for commercial, but now free for non-commercial/personal use. Here is the current pricing.
Solution 2
I agree that cygwin/OpenSSH is the best choice, but its setup can be involved to say the least. Here is a document to get you started though: Installing OpenSSH
Solution 3
I've been using Bitvise SSH Server for a number of years. It is a wonderful product and it is easy to setup and maintain. It gives you great control over how users connect to the server with support for security groups.
Solution 4
copssh - OpenSSH for Windows
http://www.itefix.no/i2/copssh
Packages essential Cygwin binaries.
Solution 5
OpenSSH is a contender. Looks like it hasn't been updated in a while though.
It's the de facto choice in my opinion. And yes, running under Cygwin is really the nicest method.
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Updated on July 05, 2022Comments
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Dane O'Connor almost 2 years
Trying to setup an SSH server on Windows Server 2003. What are some good ones? Preferably open source. I plan on using WinSCP as a client so a server which supports the advanced features implemented by that client would be great.
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mikemaccana about 10 yearsRather than close, why not move to ServerFault?
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Liam over 9 yearsThis has been asked on server fault already..and closed as off topic...
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Viktor Vix Jančík almost 9 yearsmina.apache.org/sshd-project is one of the few that's Open-Source
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Martin Prikryl over 7 yearsMicrosoft recently released its own build of OpenSSH for Windows. On WinSCP site, I've added a guide for setting up SSH/SFTP server on Windows using this Microsoft build of OpenSSH.
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alpha_989 over 6 years@MartinPrikryl, does it work as well as
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Martin Vobr over 5 yearsList of SFTP servers for Windows can be found at sftp.net/servers
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Ryan Bolger about 15 yearsI think your pricing information is a bit out of date. For Non-Commercial, Personal use it's actually free now. A standard single server license costs $100.
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Jesse Dearing about 15 yearsYep. They sure did. Updated answer to reflect that.
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Lance Fisher about 13 yearsThanks! This worked great. Also, I used their "Tunnelier" client to make a client to server SSH tunnel, and it worked on the first try!
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ScrollerBlaster over 12 yearsJust started using this from Linux for cross platform builds. Great.
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Gyuri almost 12 years<Quote>Copssh is an OpenSSH server and client implementation for Windows systems with an administration GUI. It is a yet another packaging of portable OpenSSH, Cygwin, some popular utilites, plus implementation of some best practices regarding security. You can use Copssh for remote administration of your systems or gathering remote information in a secure way.</Quote> In other words, OpenSSH + GUI [Seems like this saves time on running cygwin setup.exe + configuring OpenSSH server]
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Randy Orrison almost 12 yearsAs of 13 Sep 2012, the maintainer of that page has taken it down.
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Jonesome Reinstate Monica over 10 yearsI love the commercial ssh servers, but windows REALLY needs a native, free SSH server. The cygwin based solves can be a problem on production servers.
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Brian Lyttle over 8 yearsIt's 2015 and I still use WinSSHd.
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alpha_989 over 6 years@Jonesome, you can try github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH. But its very buggy. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why its not working, while bitvise ssh worked out of the box. You can check the github repo issues for all the problems with openssh on windows.
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alpha_989 over 6 years@Jason-Baker, why do you think cygwin is best? I tried mobassh which is based on cygwin. It had a lot of issues with incorrect encoding.. serverfault.com/questions/901041/…. It also didnt recognize path variables.. didnt have autocompletion etc etc..
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alpha_989 over 6 yearsbitvise SSH provide almost close to native
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Jonesome Reinstate Monica over 6 years@alpha_989 that github thing is the official microsoft ssh server for win server?
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alpha_989 over 6 yearsYes. that is correct. You can also check it by looking at the profiles of the people who are pushing code to the repo.. they are all MS employees..