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It seems like this is useful for mounting sshfs drives on a Windows client. Anyone know how to achieve the inverse? That is, I have SSH access to a Windows host (no WSL) and would like to access its filesystem over sshfs or scp. How to do git remotes over such a connection would also be helpful because I haven't figured that out, either.

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You can install openssh server and client as Windows components nowadays, somewhere from settings. You can set up git remotes just fine with it, I don't remember trying sshfs.

They're both missing a lot of features, and which features are missing/unsupported is not documented in the tool itself (it just silently fails if you try to use options they haven't ported over, instead of telling you they're unsupported either in the docs or at run time).

The client is missing multiplexing (ControlMaster, etc.), for example. The server also has various quirks, including requiring extra configuration to allow SSHing in to administrator accounts.

If you can get away with doing everything in WSL instead, you're better off.

It's wild you can SSH into a straight up regular old DOS prompt (or WSL fwiw) with it.

There must be some sort of command code translation layer in action to make that work.

With Cygwin you could ssh into cmd.exe on Windows NT 4.0

You can ssh into any shell, it's always determined after the login.

Setting up authorized keys was a bit tricky IIRC, but otherwise can confirm it’s bundled as part of windows and just works.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/install.121/e22624/prei...

As long as the machine you are connecting from has a working sshfs, it should be able to mount any path on any host to which you have SSH access.

sftp always worked out of the box, flawless and intuitively for me. No setup needed.

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