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Is it possible to restart the server using WinSCP?

I transferred the files from my local computer to the remote directory using WinSCP, but I'm curious if I can restart/reboot the server using the same application or i need to do that using PuTTY.

Solution

  • I don’t think you can. WinSCP is a SFTP client, SFTP its a subsystem of SSH, but that does not mean that you can achieve everything you can do with SSH.

    Here’s a complete list of commands supported by the SFTP protocol -> https://www.ssh.com/ssh/sftp/#sec-SFTP-Protocol

    As you can see there’s no such ‘reboot’ instruction nor anything similar.

    EDIT

    As other answer says, WinSCP has the ability to issue remote commands https://winscp.net/eng/docs/remote_command

    So you can do Commands > Open Terminal and issue a reboot