How can I map a SFTP to a Drive, natively in Windows

Solution 1:

Setting up FTP is one thing.
But, supporting Secure FTP requires integrating a public key authentication mechanism into the system. Windows is not close to that yet (at least for mapping file systems). And, if any such thing is now supported in Windows 7, I'd like to know very much.

Meanwhile, freeSSHd is a very good tool for the purpose.
It also supports SFTP, though my favorite command through it is scp.

Solution 2:

I don't think you can do that natively in windows, however here is a software corresponding to your needs: expandrive.
Hope this helps.

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Solution 3:

See this question on Serverfault:

Is there an open source tool to map SFTP connections as a Windows mapped drive?

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Solution 4:

Swish is perfect for that. As simple as doubleclicking and set your drive : you're done !

It works perfectly on Win 7 32bits

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Solution 5:

I have found the WinSCP is a good windows solution for SFTP in windows. It is not a mapped drive but it does allow for drag and drop and has Putty integration. Check it out at http://winscp.net/