ssh/sftp connection refused

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all,

I logged on to a Unix server and am trying to connect a remote Windows server (Windows NT) via SSH/SFTP. However I always got the following error,

sftp username@host_server (or ssh username@host_server)
 
ssh: connect to host host_server port 22: Connection refused

Any advise on this?

Thanks

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Standard things that cause this:

SSH server needs to be installed at the other end
(on the machine you want to connect to).
In general you cannot SSH connect to another Windows workstation,
since Windows does not have an SSH server included by default.

You are trying to use a protocol that the server does not support. SSH.
Or using the wrong port if the remote is set up unusually.
Because the Windows server is running SFTP/SSH on a non-standard port.

You may need to connect through proxy server, but you have not specified one on
login dialog. Or connection was blocked by firewall.