Steps to configure settings to ssh to WSL from another computer
Run the Ubuntu Linux from Windows start menu.
To find the exact name of WSL Linux installed, type this on your Windows command prompt.
wsl -l 
remember the name of your Ubuntu installation.
Get the IP address of your Ubuntu Linux.
wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04 hostname βI 
From Windows PowerShell in administrator mode or command prompt run as administrator,
issue the following two commands to delete/add network port proxy rules where it uses your WSLβs IP address.
1)
netsh interface portproxy delete v4tov4 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 listenport=22 (2)
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 listenport=22 connectaddress=172.22.44.94 connectport=22 Here 172.22.44.94 is the IP address of Linux machine created by WSL.
Important notes:
– that IP address is βdynamicβ and every time you restart/reboot your Windows computer, it might be changed.
– Therefore, every time you restart the computer, you need to run (2) again on Windows command prompt.
Validate network port proxy rule has been changed:
netsh interface portproxy show v4tov4 
Here, 172.22.44.94 is WSLβs dynamic IP address.
By default, port 22 is blocked by Windows Defenderβs firewall.
From the same Windows PowerShell in administrator mode or run as administrator, issue the following command to open port 22.
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=βWSL SSHβ dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=22 After all those steps, you should be able to ssh into your WSL Linux from Windows (using localhost) or from other computer (using Windows IP address)
