Enabling SSH

My office laptop runs Ubuntu but my home desktop still has windows 2000. I often feel the need to transfer files between the two. I know that WinSCP allows one to do so. So I downloaded WinSCP, installed it on my windows destop and tried to connect to my laptop. This did not work. With a few google searches I learnt that SSH service on my laptop has to be started for winSCP to work.

Here is how SSH services can be setup:

1. Install openssh server

# sudo apt-get install openssh-server

2. Modify the setting and restart SSH server.

# sudo gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

In my case, my username is asood, thus I added one line to /etc/ssh/sshd_config


Protocol 2
...
PermitRootLogin no
...
AllowUsers asood

3. Restart SSH server.
# sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart