The original post: /r/homelab by /u/Grg3031 on 2024-09-17 17:40:30.

I am trying to set up an SSH connection between my Mac and Windows computer in order to transfer files from my Mac onto my windows machine which hosts my external hard drives. I am running into the issue where I don’t know my Windows computers password as I use a pin number for logins. In order to bypass this, I have tried to manually set up an authorized keys file on my windows machine and manually put my mac’s public key into this file. This has not worked up to this point.

If anyone has any idea how to approach this problem, please let me know! I am not very familiar with powershell, with most of my experience with ssh being with linux and mac machines, so please explicitly type out any required powershell commands.