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Why? So you can ssh into your Windows machines as well!

# Get Cygwin <a href="http://cygwin.com">here</a>.
# Install it and choose the OpenSSH package (OpenSSL will also be chosen for you, as a dependency).
# Install the cygrunsrv package from the Admin category.
# Right-click "My Computer", select properties, go to Advanced tab, select "Environment Variables". Find the variable for "Path" and double-click it. Add "C:\cygwin\bin" to the path, after whatever else is there. Click on "New" and add a new variable named CYGWIN with the value set to ntsec tty.
# Open a cygwin bash shell and run ssh-host-config -y to set up ssh keys, your sshd config file and to set sshd to run as a Windows service. It'll ask for the value of the CYGWIN variable, put in the same thing as the var above: ntsec tty.
# start the service from the cygwin bash shell by running cygrunsrv -S sshd.
# You should be able to test it by ssh'ing to localhost. If that works, try it over your LAN. If that doesn't work, check your Windows firewall and allow connections to TCP port 22.

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-Why? So you can ssh into your Windows machines as well! Or so you can combine it with [[Tunneling_over_SSH_from_Windows]]...in any case, this only works on Win2k or WinXP:
+Why? So you can ssh into your Windows machines as well! Or so you can combine it with [[Tunneling_over_SSH_from_Windows]].
 == FreeSSHD ==
-Currently, the easiest method is to use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows. Check [[http://www.freesshd.com]].
+There is a free-as-in-beer (though not open source) single-install SSH server for Windows platforms called [[http://www.freesshd.com FreeSSHD]].  FreeSSHD uses the proprietary "wodSSH" library as its engine.
-== Older alternative ==
+== OpenSSH under Cygwin ==
 # Get Cygwin [[http://cygwin.com here]].

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 == FreeSSHD ==
-Currently, the easiest method is to use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows. <ref>{{ref|http://www.freesshd.com}}</ref>
+Currently, the easiest method is to use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows. Check [[http://www.freesshd.com]].
 == Older alternative ==

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 == FreeSSHD ==
-Currently, the easiest method is to use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows. <ref>http://www.freesshd.com</ref>
+Currently, the easiest method is to use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows. <ref>{{ref|http://www.freesshd.com}}</ref>
 == Older alternative ==

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 == FreeSSHD ==
-Currently, the easiest method is to use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows.
+Currently, the easiest method is to use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows. <ref>http://www.freesshd.com</ref>
 == Older alternative ==

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 == FreeSSHD ==
-The best and easiest method currently is the use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows.
+Currently, the easiest method is to use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows.
 == Older alternative ==

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	Why? So you can ssh into your Windows machines as well! Or so you can combine it with [[Tunneling_over_SSH_from_Windows]]...in any case, this only works on Win2k or WinXP:		Why? So you can ssh into your Windows machines as well! Or so you can combine it with [[Tunneling_over_SSH_from_Windows]]...in any case, this only works on Win2k or WinXP:
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		+	== FreeSSHD ==
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		+	The best and easiest method currently is the use the free SSH server, FreeSSHD, for Windows.
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		+	== Older alternative ==

	# Get Cygwin [[http://cygwin.com here]].		# Get Cygwin [[http://cygwin.com here]].

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 # start the service from the cygwin bash shell by running <B>cygrunsrv -S sshd</B>.
 # You should be able to test it by ssh'ing to <B>localhost</B>. If that works, try it over your LAN. If that doesn't work, check your Windows firewall and allow connections to TCP port 22.
 [[Category:Cygwin]]