I have deployed a Windows VM (AnanyaVM) under resource group "cerberusucmpoc" and have added the ssh inbound rule to it, but when I am trying to access the public ip through putty (port 22) its showing connection timeout. What is wrong in this setup?

Hi @Ananya Sarkar , Thanks for the question. In order to SSH into a Windows VM you would need an SSH Server installed on the VM such as Open SSH which is available on Windows Server 2019. Are you running Windows Server 2019 and do you have the Open SSH Server installed on the VM? Follow this doc here to ensure you have the SSH Server setup on your Windows Machine. On another note most users use the RDP Protocol when attempting to remote into Windows based machines, have you tried using the RDP protocol? The SSH Protocol is usually used when attempting to remote into Unix-like operating systems. RDP tends to work better when trying to connect to Windows VMs. Let me know! Thanks.

Unable to SSH to a Windows VM

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whoward-msft 2,766 Reputation points

2020-09-12T00:18:39.973+00:00

Hi @Ananya Sarkar ,

Thanks for the question. In order to SSH into a Windows VM you would need an SSH Server installed on the VM such as Open SSH which is available on Windows Server 2019. Are you running Windows Server 2019 and do you have the Open SSH Server installed on the VM? Follow this doc here to ensure you have the SSH Server setup on your Windows Machine.

On another note most users use the RDP Protocol when attempting to remote into Windows based machines, have you tried using the RDP protocol? The SSH Protocol is usually used when attempting to remote into Unix-like operating systems. RDP tends to work better when trying to connect to Windows VMs. Let me know! Thanks.
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Ronen Ariely 15,191 Reputation points

2020-09-12T01:48:58.083+00:00

Some more information....

SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol. Adding the SSH rule to the Azure fire wall simply mean that the firewall will allow using this protocol over the network and it does not mean that something will listen to the incoming communication over the SSH protocol.

It is basically the same like opening port 80 (which usually used by web servers) without installing web server, or like opening port 1433 and complain that you cannot connect SQL Server on the remote machine while you did not even installed SQL Server :-)

An SSH server is a software program which uses the secure shell (SSH) protocol to accept connections from remote computers.

So... As @WinstonHoward-MSFT wrote above, you need application which listen to the communication over SSH in order to connect to something that will actually respond and "speak" with you back

Ananya Sarkar 311 Reputation points

2020-09-12T09:24:42.773+00:00

Thanks Winston, will follow your suggestion and will check further.

Ananya Sarkar 311 Reputation points

2020-09-12T09:25:40.827+00:00

True. Thanks for the info.

whoward-msft 2,766 Reputation points

2020-09-14T17:17:14.453+00:00

Of course, glad to help! Best of luck.
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