Need help to set up ssh

[John_Locke]

Hello, i'm using Arch Linux and get this error message when trying to test ssh:

ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused.

I'm running Arch Linux inside VirtualBox and would like to connect to my windows system through ssh.

Thanks in advance.

[alf55]

Since when does windows include a ssh service?

[John_Locke]

Since when does windows include a ssh service?

Since PuTTY was created, in 1999 according to wikipedia.

[Irithori]

Just to get it right:
putty is a ssh client. Not a server.

I am also unsure, why you try to connect localhost, because there are two: arch localhost and windows localhost.

Are you trying to connect from windows to arch with putty?

[John_Locke]

The command "ssh localhost" was just for test purposes, to check if the ssh service on Linux is running.

What i intend to do is transfer files between windows and Linux, which is running on a VM. This can be done in windows via PuTTY with command scp and in Linux also with command scp in the terminal.

Please correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe this can be done.

[Irithori]

Ah ok.
Then I guess, the openssh server in your arch system is either not installed or not started.
I am not familiar with arch, but probably pacman is used to install packages:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...cific_packages

As for the windows side.
putty might work, but imho WinSCP is the recommended free scp client.
Recently, I stumbled over Swish.
It lacks a lot of features (auth keys, proxies, configmanagement, etc), but shows potential.