Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by blueflame7 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:15PM
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It would be wonderful if sftp was included in windows distributions natively
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by Iwan-Zotow on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:21PM
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but it is included, as well as scp
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by blueflame7 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:23PM
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Even within Explore to mount a remote linux server over ssh?
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by shawnz on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:20PM
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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.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by cspotrun79 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:52PM
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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.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by uberman on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:10PM
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There is a native ssh client in windows 10.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by lostmsu on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:35PM
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Now I want screen or tmux. Otherwise you can't really run anything on a remote Windows machine over SSH on spotty connections.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by uberman on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:50AM
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You can ssh into your remote and start a tmux session then. If you are disconnected you ssh back then tmux attach. :-)
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by lostmsu on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:16PM
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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.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by uberman on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:15PM
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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.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by Iwan-Zotow on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:02AM
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well, this thing sometimes works
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by lostmsu on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:14AM
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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.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by WorldMaker on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:15PM
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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.)
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by solarkraft on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:24PM
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I like my GUIs when they're more efficient. All major Linux file managers and the Mac OS one support sftp mounts graphically.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by redflame7 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:52PM
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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
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by Iwan-Zotow on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:52PM
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ssh, sftp, scp are all there, part of W10 SSH package
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
by blueflame7 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:08PM
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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.