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It would be wonderful if sftp was included in windows distributions natively

but it is included, as well as scp

Even within Explore to mount a remote linux server over ssh?

why would you need that if you have the command line functionality already? Windows has shipped with sftp for a while now. about the only think missing is a stand alone ssh client on the windows side but for that there is putty.

It would be nice to be able to mount a remote linux data share as a drive without using SMB due to all the EternalBlue Ransomware issues. Having that convenience in windows file explorer like nautilus would be helpful for people who aren't necessarily power users.

There is a native ssh client in windows 10.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...

Now I want screen or tmux. Otherwise you can't really run anything on a remote Windows machine over SSH on spotty connections.

well, this thing sometimes works

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/panes

No, the issue is about SSH sessions.

  ssh user@windows-pc run long job

If you do this, and your connection is interrupted, `run long job` command will be terminated.

You can ssh into your remote and start a tmux session then. If you are disconnected you ssh back then tmux attach. :-)

Remote machine is Windows. tmux is not available on Windows. That's the whole issue.

This could be done with WSL, but WSL is too heavy for a task like that.

Ah my apologies, I thought you were looking for a native windows client version of tmux to go along with the native client ssh. I see you are looking for a server side implementation though.

OpenSSH both client and server has been a Windows feature for sometime in Windows 10 and the client has been auto-enabled in Dev Mode for slightly less but nearly as much time. (It's the OpenSSH Client provided as a Windows 10 feature that also provides sftp now.)

I like my GUIs when they're more efficient. All major Linux file managers and the Mac OS one support sftp mounts graphically.

Exactly, especially when one of the few things Windows does a lot better than linux (at least historically) is the seamless integration of multiple video cards for having many screens which allow for more graphical interactions

ssh, sftp, scp are all there, part of W10 SSH package

Unfortunately it lacks Explorer integration although the command line client works well. SFTP integration in Explorer is one of the few big weak points remaining for Linux interoperability.

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