Fractional CTO

David Favor

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Will be useful for you to run WinSCP in debug mode + provide the output.<br />
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Also, make sure you're running a version of WinSCP that matches your server's sshd version.<br />
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A WinSCP version mismatch with sshd will be impossible to fix. The debug log above should provide enough detail to make this determination quickly.
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you have restarted the SSH service ?
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I just rebooted the host to make sure. &nbsp;Same result.<br />
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Could this be caused by something off in the workstation I'm working from? &nbsp;Windows 10 Pro. &nbsp;<br />
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The reason I ask is a separate open ticket I have for https access to both local hosts fails on my workstation but it works fine from a Windows 7 workstation and a Windows 10 laptop.
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Hadn't thought of that. &nbsp;Turned it off on the w.s., but same result.
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so it's only on this computer ?
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umm a bit odd as usually one is setup as default!<br />
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and why SFTP does not work but SSH does..
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Also given that I had made the error over a week ago and symptoms started showing up several days later.<br />
But I can't argue with the fact it works now. &nbsp;Huh.
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Hi,<br />
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I have 2 ESXi hosts running on 6.7.0. &nbsp;Been seeing strange issues with both over the last few days and just tried to sFTP to them with WinSCP. &nbsp;This has worked flawlessly before.<br />
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I get logged on to both, but WinSCP can't bring up a directory listing in either case on the host boxes. &nbsp;Seems awfully odd that this would be an issue with both at the same time. &nbsp;?<br />
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--Ben
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Hi,

I have 2 ESXi hosts running on 6.7.0.  Been seeing strange issues with both over the last few days and just tried to sFTP to them with WinSCP.  This has worked flawlessly before.

I get logged on to both, but WinSCP can't bring up a directory listing in either case on the host boxes.  Seems awfully odd that this would be an issue with both at the same time.  ?

--Ben

sFTP issues on hosts in ESXi 6.7.0

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