steelbrain / steelbrain/node-ssh
Support SFTP on Windows SSH server?
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Description
when I use node-ssh to connect to a Windows ssh server, and perform SFTP operations, it failed to reqeust SFTP with errors below:

Looks like the Windows dowsn't support SFTP protocol. But I checked the sshd_config on the windows server, it has sftp-server subsystem:

I can perform SFTP operations on a Linux ssh server successfully. And I can execute command on the windows ssh server. Does anyone know why it failed? And how to performa sftp on a windows ssh server?
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No repository files or tests are identified. Start by reproducing the SFTP request failure against the Windows SSH server, compare it with the successful Linux-server operation, and inspect the reported error. Done means identifying whether node-ssh can perform SFTP on this server and documenting a confirmed fix or limitation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100