Connecting from Linux to Windows via ssh?

[FigmentGames]

When using the shell link option I can connect from Linux to remote linux servers via ssh but receive an error when trying to connect from Linux to a remote Windows machine running ssh.

Cannot change directory to /sh://machinename Input/Output error (5)

If however I do ssh machinename or scp machinename or use a file manager to connect via sftp://machinename all work without a problem. Where "machinename" is a Host defined in ssh config along with username/identityfile.

Should this work? Also how would a path be set for example on Linux hostlist URL might be "/sh://machinename/home/username" but for windows it would need C:\Users\username, how would this be specified ?

[mc-worker]

Windows is not supported at all.

[zyv]

To be more specific, you don't seem to be understanding the exact difference between Shell (former FISH) protocol and SFTP:

The latter is built into the ssh server for Windows, so it works. The former was created a decade earlier as a universal means of browsing files on hosts that have a POSIX environment and an ssh server.

Obviously, even if you install an ssh server on Windows, it doesn't have a POSIX environment, so Shell/FISH cannot work there by definition, because it relies on the availability and specific output of coreutils.

If you need to connect to Windows, just use SFTP.

[ossilator]

kde's implementation of fish comes with a perl server, so it should be rather easy to make it run on windows.
of course, bootstrapping that server would still require environment detection and some windows-specific code.
it's probably not worth it, given sftp's availability ...