SSH into windows 7 or xp machine
Greetings: I would like to connect to a Windows 7 machine(Server) using a Linux machine(Client) or a putty client on another PC. Is this possible? I have tried to get port 22 forwarding enabled on windows 7. After the enabling I tried connecting to the server using a linux os and I get the "connection refused" error, earlier I got "connection time out" error when I did not have the port 22 forwarded. Oh and I would like to do this over the internet. I did get a hostname from DynDNS.org. Thanks
July 22nd, 2010 1:30am

Hi, Please follow this link and see if it is any help to your issue: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/ecda546e-5fa0-4c09-9f3c-3bd132c1be68 Hope this helps. Regards, Sabrina
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July 23rd, 2010 10:58am

fchandur wrote: I would like to connect to a Windows 7 machine(Server) using a Linux machine(Client) or a putty client on another PC. Is this possible? Not with a plain Windows 7 installation. Windows does not include an ssh server/service. You have to install and configure a custom SSH server - e.g. freeSSHd. Win-J
July 24th, 2010 2:52pm

Thank you! I was never able to do it with plain windows installation. I used winshhd(Install this on the server side) from bitwise, to login to windows machine from a Mac. Though bitwise provides GUI: 'tunnelier' for the client side it is not required if you have putty on a PC and, if you are on a Mac you can simply use xterm window and simply ssh in to the server. The good thing about winsshd is that it keeps a log of all the external computers trying to connect to the server and it is very accessible. Anyways I can safely say that this problem has been solved!
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July 24th, 2010 9:25pm

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