SSH Server on Vista

[Dietrich]

I used to run an SSH server on my system which has XP. It wasn't very difficult but my friend help me to do it but now he is not available.now I want to set up the SSH server o in Vista but i am not able to do that please can any body help me to do that.thank you.

[karunakar]

Well I was going to suggest using another program, OpenVPN. It works just fine on Vista and creates and encrypted tunnel via tcp or udp on whatever port you want to configure it to. You need to make a DH key and a signed certificate to be able to connect, so it's fairly secure.

[Steve123]

Here is tips to do it.

* Install Cygwin and OpenSSH
* Configure an SSH Server in Windows Vista
* Run your SSH Server in Windows Vista

[Zachary]

The first step is to download OpenSSH. OpenSSH is bundled in an application called Cygwin. Download Cygwin from here. Cygwin is the setup.exe file on the project homepage.

Move the executable file into C:\Cygwin\setup.exe

Right-click on setup.exe and choose Create Shortcut. Drag the shortcut to your desktop and double-click the shortcut and start Cygwin.

The following is the first installation screen for Cygwin. Click Next.

Leave the default choice as Install from Internet and click Next.

Change the directory to C:\cygwin if it is not already populated and leave the default selections as All Users and Unix/binary and click Next.

On the Select Local Package Directory Prompt. Change the directory to C:\Cygwin if it is not already populated and click Next.

Leave your Internet connection as Direction Connection and click Next.

Choose any mirror and click Next.

Unfold the Net tab and then double-click on OpenSSH.

It will take a few minutes for Cygwin to install your necessary packages depending on the speed of your Internet connection and the mirror you chose.

Leave Create icon on Desktop and Add icon to Start Menu checked and click Finish.


Congratulations the installation of Cygwin is complete. Right-click the icon on your Cygwin icon on your desktop and chose Run as Administrator.


To configure your SSH Server (Open SSH) type ssh-host-config. Cygwin will then ask Should privilege separation be used? Answer Yes.

Cygwin will then ask Should this script create a local user 'sshd' on this machine? Answer Yes.

Cygwin will then ask Do you want to install sshd as service? Answer Yes.

Cygwin will then ask Should this script create a new local account 'ssh_server' which has the required privileges? Answer No.

Cygwin will then ask Which value should the environment variable CYGWIN have when sshd starts? Answer ntsec tty. Congratulations the setup of your SSH Server is complete.

Start your SSH Server by typing net start sshd and hit Enter

Note: it is a generally considered an unsafe practice to allow SSH access on protocol 1. You can block protocol access by editing C:\cygwin\etc\defaults\etc\sshd_config.