How Do I Run SSHD on Windows?

Cygwin has all of the Linux goodies, making Windows a tolerable development platform. It provides the standard OpenSSH packages.

• Install Cygwin.
• Install openssh clients and servers package.
• Run ssh-host-config.

Skip the install as a service thing, instead just enter:

$ /usr/sbin/sshd

in the shell, it will run in the background.

Now you can do cool things, like SSH into your Windows computer or using SCP to copy files to/from it.

For more info see Installing Cygwin and Starting the SSH Daemon. It does a nice job covering all the details, including dealing with Enterprise environments (i.e. Work/IT issues).