How To: connect to the iPhone via SSH (Win)

These are the steps to follow to connect your Windows PC to your iPhone via SSH using WinSCP:

  • install OpenSSH from Cydia
  • download WinSCP here
  • when the installation is completed, this login dialog appears:

  • go to Settings->WiFi in your iPhone, choose your connection and tap the blue arrow to get the iPhone IP address
  • type the IP address into the Host name field
  • type root into the User name field
  • type alpine into the Password field
  • click on the Login button
  • a message box will appear; click Yes and wait until the PC establishes a connection to your iPhone..
  • ..done! Now a dialog will show up: the panel on the right displays the folders of the iPhone, the one on the left shows the folders of your PC.. now you can drag & drop files, rename them and make other files operations as if you are using Explorer..

11 Comments on "How To: connect to the iPhone via SSH (Win)"

  1. iPhoneRuler October 11, 2010 at 11:55 am ·

    you can connect to your iPhone via USB using iPhoneBrowser (Win) or iPhone Explorer (Mac)..