Re: SCP/SFTP on Windows

From: Christopher Derr (cmderr_at_ucdavis.edu)
Date: 01/27/04


Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:33:19 -0800

As it turns out, one of the registry keys (Root - native) was written
as: Z:\directory/bin

Changing it to Z:\directory\bin fixed the problem.

Christopher Derr wrote:
> I just installed the slimmed down version of OpenSSH on a Windows NT
> server (hope to get rid of FTP in the near future).
>
> http://lexa.mckenna.edu/sshwindows/
>
> The SSH part works fine...the SCP and SFTP part does not. If I use
> putty sftp to connect I get as far as typing in my password. After
> that, I get an error:
>
> Unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect.
>
> If I use WinSCP (despite the lack of a plugin for the newest version of
> the server, which might be the problem for WinSCP), it asks if I'm sure
> there's an SFTP server running.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Chris



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