Mounting SSH/SFTP shares on Windows 7

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SFTP as a folder on Vista

I'm fairly unfamiliar with Windows, especially Windows 7, but using it for a school project; essentially I have a directory accessible through SSH that I would want to mount in Windows 7 the same way you would do it through sshfs in Linux or OS X, but I don't know of any FUSE port for Windows 7. Does anyone know any easy way to accomplish this in Windows 7?

(Just a regular SFTP client like FileZilla would work, but I'd prefer not to have to manually transfer the file(s) over for compilation every time I make a change, so something that mounts it as a local volume is preferred.)

Answer 1

Take a look at Dokan SSHFS for Windows. Dokan SSHFS is a program that mounts remote file systems using SSH. You will need to install the MSVC 2005 redistributable and the Dokan library available on the SSHFS download page.

Another solution is to use MindTerm along with NetDrive (both have free home versions):

1. Download and extract mindTerm
2. Run mindterm.jar (double click it if you can, otherwise in command prompt type in java -jar mindterm.jar)
3. Type in the host you want to ssh into followed by the username and password
4. In the menu click on Plugins>FTP To SFTP Bridge…
5. Type in 127.0.0.1 for the Listen address
6. Type in 21 for the Listen port
7. Select the Remote system type
8. Click Enable
9. Click Dismiss
10. Next we want to install NetDrive
11. Once netdrive is installed, open it up, and click New Site on the bottom
12. Type in localhost (or whatever you want to call it) for the Site name
13. Type in localhost for the Site IP
14. Type in 21 for the Port
15. Select FTP for the Port
16. Select a Drive letter
17. Check Connect as anonymous
18. Click Save
19. Click Connect
20. Click the X to close the window (will minimize to system tray)

There you have it! A SSH/SFTP connection as a drive in Windows. I have tested it in Windows Vista, however it should work just fine in Windows XP.

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