Steam Deck: The Complete SSHFS Tutorial (Ultimate 2024 Edition)

Access your Deck's storage using whatever file manager or tools you want ON AND FROM Windows.  In a few minutes, you can copy roms, access compatdata, backup/restore save files and more without ever leaving the comfort of Windows.

In about ten minutes, you will have your common Steam Deck locations mounted as drive letters in Windows - accessing them just like another Windows drive.

You won't believe how fast and easy it is to manage your files on the Deck using this SSH/SSHFS method and it is totally free and open source.

This video combines all three of my previous SSHFS videos into one - and we'll also guide you through creating batch files to easily mount and unmount these drives so you don't have to redo the mounts manually.

This video has additional tricks and tips: Steam Deck: SSHFS Power User Tricks F...

Note: Windows 11 Pro is shown, other versions of 11 and Windows 10 should work exactly the same.  If you have issues with Winget reporting a problem, execute this command. that should fix it:

winget source reset --force

Note 2: If your SD card name has spaces in them?  Try replacing your NET USE line for Y: with this:
net use Y: "\\sshfs.r\deck@steamdeck\run\media\deck\%drive%" /user:deck %pass% /persistent:Yes

This will be updated in a future version of the video.

Steam Deck Commands:
whoami
passwd
sudo systemctl enable sshd
sudo systemctl start sshd
sudo systemctl status sshd

WinGet Installs:
winget upgrade winget
winget install WinFsp.WinFsp
winget install SSHFS-Win.SSHFS-Win

Download Link:
https://monroeworld.com/steamdeck/Mou...

Common Drive Mount Points:
SD card - \\sshfs.r\deck@steamdeck\run\media\deck\[yourSDid]
Root - \\sshfs.r\deck@steamdeck
Home Folder - \\sshfs.r\deck@steamdeck\home\deck\
CompatData - \\sshfs.r\deck@steamdeck\home\deck\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\compatdata

SSHFS Git Repo:
https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win

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