# Error on setup Remote-SSH in Cursor

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/error-on-setup-remote-ssh-in-cursor/27039>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [November 10, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/error-on-setup-remote-ssh-in-cursor/27039 "2024-11-10T02:39:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![hiteck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/hiteck/32/11334_2.png) [@hiteck](https://forum.cursor.com/u/hiteck)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/error-on-setup-remote-ssh-in-cursor/27039/1 "2024-11-10T02:39:23Z")

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I am working on iMac and want to ssh to my windows PC to leverage its computational power. However when I use remote-ssh to connect to my windows PC in iMac, I got **Failed to download VS Code Server (Server returned 404).**. It appears to look for a server download URL: [https://cursor.blob.core.windows.net/remote-releases/b1e87884330fc271d5eb589e368c35f14e76dec0/cli-win32-x64.tar.gz](https://cursor.blob.core.windows.net/remote-releases/b1e87884330fc271d5eb589e368c35f14e76dec0/cli-win32-x64.tar.gz) which does not exist. I have spent many hours on this issue and even built vscode from source to extract vscode server from it and put it into my windows “C:\Users\myuser.cursor-server” folder, and in the cursor json setting “remote.SSH.localServerDownload”: “always”,  
“remote.SSH.useLocalServer”: true,  
“remote.SSH.serverDownloadPath”: “C:\Users\myuser\.cursor-server” but they all do not work, how can it be solved? BTW, I also tested the remote-ssh in VScode which has no issue for connecting to Windows computer and can download the vscode server successfully. Thanks

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**Author:** ![hiteck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/hiteck/32/11334_2.png) [@hiteck](https://forum.cursor.com/u/hiteck)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/error-on-setup-remote-ssh-in-cursor/27039/2 "2024-11-12T21:21:22Z")

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Can any team member help me with this issue? Any solution or not?  
Now my iMac only has 8g memory and I really need to connect to my windows computer which has 16g memory. After a while of use of Cursor, the editor will freeze, crash and then restart. I guess it is related to the memory issue. Thank you for your help in advance.

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**Author:** ![mlhiter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/mlhiter/32/11778_2.png) [@mlhiter](https://forum.cursor.com/u/mlhiter)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/error-on-setup-remote-ssh-in-cursor/27039/3 "2024-11-14T07:44:45Z")

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> [@hiteck](#):
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> computational

Same problem.

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**Author:** ![hiteck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/hiteck/32/11334_2.png) [@hiteck](https://forum.cursor.com/u/hiteck)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/error-on-setup-remote-ssh-in-cursor/27039/4 "2024-11-15T20:41:04Z")

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I found a way to way to make it work. Setup WSL in windows then Cursor is able to remote ssh to it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/error-on-setup-remote-ssh-in-cursor/27039/5 "2025-12-21T08:58:40Z")

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