OpenSSH in Windows Server 2012 R2

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I'm trying to create a complete FTP server on Win 2012 r2 using IIS FTP (for FTP and FTPS protocol) and OpenSSH for SFTP protocol.

I'm searching for several documentations but I'm discovering different issues; for example, I cannot understand if OpenSSH uses fstab file in its configuration since it is not present in the etc folder installation. also, if OpenSSH uses it, is there a way to configure it or can I simply follow the UNIX rules?

edit:question Is IIS SFTP natively supported by Windows Server 2012 R2? is not the same of mine. in that topic there is a question about the possibility to use SSH on a Win Server 2012 XX. this is not my problem since I know yet that natively it is not supported. in fact, I would use another component, OpenSSH for Windows (i.e. http://www.mls-software.com/opensshd.html)but I was trying to understand in a better way its functionalities.

@Hyppy http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshwindows/ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZyUX-LZHts — Jim B, Apr 28 '15 at 20:03
Is it worthwhile reopening this as OpenSSH has a native port to Windows? https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable — Alex KeySmith, Jan 06 '17 at 10:05

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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Save yourself some headache and find an SSH server that was designed to run on Windows instead of an SSH server that was designed to run on *nix and hacked to run on Windows via a compatibility layer like Cygwin.

There are some excellent choices highlighted in this previous answer: What is a good SSH server to use on Windows?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered Apr 28 '15 at 22:19

Ryan Bolger

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