(3) Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Environment VariablesĬlick the 'New' button to add a new entry to system variables: Size of the basic cygwin system is about 40 Meg, this may take a while if you have a slow connection.

When a selection screen comes up, click the little View button for 'Full' view ,įind the line ' OpenSSH', click on the word 'skip' so that an appears in Column B,Ĭlick to start installing cygwin and ssh. When it asks for ' Local Package Directory', type c:cygwin

(2) Download cygwin’s setup.exe from and save setup.exe in c:cygwinĬlick Start…Run…and type c:cygwinsetup.exe

(1a) Login as Administrator (Windows XP – login as a user with Administrator privilege). The ssh server is an emulation of the UNIX environment and OpenSSH to Windows, by Redhat, called Cygwin How to install a sftp server on a Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003 How to install a ssh server (called sshd, from OpenSSH) on a Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003 Works like charm.Īll this was done my be at no cost. This would work with these protcols as well.īelow are the instructions I used. Not sure if we have clients that would use IMAP or POP or SSH.

A free client that supports SSH connections. I have this running on a IIS 6 server on Windows 2003 std. I had to setup this for a friend of mine and cheap was on his mind.

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