It's a gunzipped tar ball (tar.gz) (reference). You need to unzip it first, you can use 7-zip on windows just right click on it then > 7-zip > Open Archive. The archive Note the following corner case: If you use multiple --remote options, AND you are dropping root privileges on the client with --user and/or --group, AND the client is running a non-Windows OS, if the client needs to switch to a different…