This doesn't allow copy of files to a windows server

[robnotley]

I am currently running the following in a github action

- name: Upload devops files using SCP
  uses: appleboy/scp-action@v1.0.0
  with:
    host: ${{ github.event.inputs.newVMName }}.internal.domain.com
    username: svc_buildagent
    password: ${{ secrets.INTERNAL_DOMAIN_JOIN_SVC_BUILDAGENT }}
    source: "./devops/testserver/*"
    target: c:/devops
    tar_dereference: true
    port: 22
    rm: false
    debug: true

This does actually copy the files but it fails the action because it can't delete the temp files (I think). It looks like it's expecting to delete the files on a linux server

Github Action log below

Drone SCP version 1.8.0

main.Plugin {
Config: main.Config {
Host: []string:1:1 {
"rntest3.internal.domain.com",
},
Port: 22,
Protocol: "tcp",
Username: "svc_buildagent",
Password: "**",
Key: "",
Passphrase: "",
Fingerprint: "",
KeyPath: "",
Timeout: 30s,
CommandTimeout: 10m0s,
Target: []string:1:1 {
"c:/devops",
},
Source: []string:1:1 {
"./devops/testserver/",
},
Remove: false,
StripComponents: 0,
TarExec: "tar",
TarTmpPath: "",
Proxy: easyssh.DefaultConfig {
User: "",
Server: "",
Key: "",
KeyPath: "",
Port: "22",
Protocol: "tcp",
Passphrase: "",
Password: "",
Timeout: 30s,
Ciphers: []string(nil),
KeyExchanges: []string(nil),
Fingerprint: "",
UseInsecureCipher: false,
},
Debug: true,
Overwrite: false,
UnlinkFirst: false,
Ciphers: []string(nil),
UseInsecureCipher: false,
TarDereference: true,
},
DestFile: "",
}
drone-scp version: 1.8.0
tar all files into /tmp/RLIWPxTKPz.tar.gz
$ tar --dereference -zcf /tmp/RLIWPxTKPz.tar.gz devops/testserver/Activate-DashworksLicense.ps1 devops/testserver/ConfigureSSLReWriterules.xml devops/testserver/CreateDbs.testserver.xml devops/testserver/Expand-Golddata.ps1 devops/testserver/Grafana-Alloy-Config.ps1 devops/testserver/IIS-Config.ps1 devops/testserver/RebuildSQL-RemoveDBFile.ps1 devops/testserver/Restore-GoldData.ps1 devops/testserver/Robocopy-Files.ps1 devops/testserver/Run-CubeUpgrades.ps1 devops/testserver/Run-DBConfiguration.ps1 devops/testserver/Run-DBDeployment.ps1 devops/testserver/Run-DatabasePatches.ps1 devops/testserver/SQL devops/testserver/SplitFeaturesIntoTests.ps1 devops/testserver/Start-AppPool-Sites.ps1 devops/testserver/automation-refresh.ps1 devops/testserver/runtransformtests-all.ps1
remote server os type is unix
scp file to server.
create folder c:/devops
untar file RLIWPxTKPz.tar.gz
$ tar -zxf RLIWPxTKPz.tar.gz -C c:/devops
remove file RLIWPxTKPz.tar.gz
drone-scp error: Process exited with status 1
drone-scp rollback: remove all target tmp file
remove file RLIWPxTKPz.tar.gz
2025/07/17 10:05:39 Process exited with status 1
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

[MrHIDEn]

The problem is with drone-scp as it expect CMD on the remote side so "ver" is rejectes and drone-scp claims it is "unix".
Modern windows servers uses PowerShell 7+, so drone-scp should use different approach.

drone-scp #199