[heddhunter]

I want to connect to a computer in my house using SFTP. Unfortunately it doesn't work. I've tried on Fire TV and Mac and the result is the same:

07:50:46 T:1540636720 INFO: SFTPSession: Creating new session on host '10.0.1.19:22' with user 'kodi'
07:50:46 T:1540636720 ERROR: SFTPSession: Password present, but server does not support password authentication
07:50:46 T:1540636720 ERROR: SFTPSession: No authentication method successful
07:50:46 T:1540636720 ERROR: SFTPSession: Not connected, can't list directory 'Volumes/Data3/'
07:50:46 T:1485475896 ERROR: static bool XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory(const CURL&, CFileItemList&, const XFILE::CDirectory::CHints&, bool) - Error getting sftp://USERNAME:[email protected]/Volumes/Data3/
07:50:46 T:1485475896 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(sftp://USERNAME:[email protected]/Volumes/Data3/) failed

The server absolutely does support password authentication, I can log in just fine from a shell on my laptop.

On the server side, I see the following when Kodi attempts to connect:

Sep 2 08:03:27 frunobulax com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd.A7F4CEE4-B5C9-4684-B888-7949D44EBCC7): Service instances do not support events yet.
Sep 2 08:03:28 frunobulax l sshd[1881]: Received disconnect from 10.0.1.25: 11: Bye Bye [preauth]
Sep 2 08:03:28 frunobulax com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd.A7F4CEE4-B5C9-4684-B888-7949D44EBCC7[1881]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255

The server is an iMac with latest Mac OS X. Is there some sort of ssh config on the Mac I need to do make it compatible with Kodi?

[mkortstiege]

Works for me. Please double check your source and credentials.

[heddhunter]

Works for me. Please double check your source and credentials.

I have triple, quadruple checked. Everything is correct.

Are you connecting to a Mac SSH server? I suspect there is something in the sshd config on the Mac that might need to be tweaked to be compatible with whatever Kodi is doing.

[mkortstiege]

Can't test right now. Let's wait for someone else to comment.