Unable to get SFTP working on RetroPie setup

[Alturis]

Re: Fresh install retropie 4.2 cannot ssh or sftp

I used the raspi-config tool to enable SSH and rebooting my raspberry pi. But following the directions to connect to it via its IP, port 22, "pi" for user, and "raspberry" for password I am still unable to connect to it.

I AM able to connect to it via windows 10 but that only gives me access to the bios, roms, configs, and splashscreens folder. I want to access the game images and info to manually update some of the scraping data for various games.

I get the following error from FileZilla where <IP-removed> is the IP of my pie.

Status: Connecting to <IP-removed>...
Response: fzSftp started, protocol_version=8
Command: open "pi@<IP-removed>" 22
Error: Network error: Software caused connection abort
Error: Could not connect to server

I get a similar but less verbose error when using WinSCP

[stoo]

All I can think of is either the SSH config got screwed up somehow or there is a firewall issue.

I'm guessing PuTTY does the same thing if you try to SSH to the RPi?

Edit: Actually, you could try the advice from the end of this recent thread:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16037/ssh-only-works-as-a-guest-solved/39

@mitu said in SSH Only works as a guest [SOLVED]:

Try this:

sudo apt-get -y purge  openssh-server
sudo apt-get -y install openssh-server

Then try enabling SSH again and/or rebooting.

[Alturis]

That did it! Thank you!

[MoX]

Find you pi ip .

Connect to same router aka network at home.

Open a file explorer ex my documents.

In address bar type \RETROPIE

Hit enter

This will take you to all the folders to add your tons without having to sshp or whatever.

[MoX]

Sorry to dbl poat. For some reason it won't let me add 2 slashes.

It's \ \ RETROPIE

Also after re reading post try putty.