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I want to make Sync a folder in windows to raspberry pi, which is connected via ethernet cable. I could write a program in windows to perform this operation and it executes well. But I dont want to run any program in the windows machine to push data to raspberry pi, rather I would like to write a program in Pi, to pull data from windows. I know there are several tools for this task, like rsync, samba, cifs, etc. But all those tools are built on top of SSH I assume. I tried to work with all the mentioned tools, none of them works.

While trying to debug the whole thing, I came to know that Pi, is hanging while trying to connect to the windows machine via SSH. When I try this 'sudo ssh -vvv computername@ipaddress' this is the output 

OpenSSH_7.4p1 Raspbian-10+deb9u1, OpenSSL 1.0.2l  25 May 2017
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug2: resolving "169.254.71.106" port 22
debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 169.254.71.106 [169.254.71.106] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 169.254.71.106 port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host 169.254.71.106 port 22: Connection timed out

Even Telnet doesnt work. When I execute 'sudo telnet ipaddress 22', this is the output.

trying <ipaddress> ...

Just Ping works. So, whats the problem here with ssh in this case? I disabled firewalls and enabled network sharing in windows as well. I made sure ssh-client and ssh-server and installed and running on windows as well. Is there a way to sync windows folder with raspberry pi, without using ssh?

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  • Newer versions of Rasbian have SSH disabled by default. Can you SSH from windows to your Pi?
    – evildemonic
    Sep 26, 2018 at 14:58
  • I enabled SSH in Rasbian. And i could SSH from windows to Pi, using Putty.
    – Potluri Sai Kranti Kiran
    Sep 26, 2018 at 15:01
  • I am just using ethernet cable to connect System with Pi. No router is involved.
    – Potluri Sai Kranti Kiran
    Sep 26, 2018 at 15:09
  • Are you running an SSH server on your Windows machine? OpenSSH for example?
    – evildemonic
    Sep 26, 2018 at 15:11
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    from the comments it appears that you ran an SSH server on the windows machine .... is that the solution that you used?
    – jsotola
    Sep 26, 2018 at 20:57

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The problem is that Windows doesn't automatically host an SSH or Telnet server. You will have to set one up on the Windows machine.

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