sublime text sftp server does not ask for password

Here is the setting of my Sublime currently. I can confirm that the port number is correct, I can use that port number to login using a pk on my Mac. failure (Invalid login/password specified)' I tried to type in the passphrase to my PK when prompt to enter the password to and got an error message saying ' Connecting to SFTP server '' as 'root'.moving around the private key into different locations including desktop, All Users folder, my user folder, root of C:/, root of D:/, My Documents folder, Sublime 3 folder, no luck.enable/disable connect_timeout, no luck.use the key file name as the username, no luck.use IP and domain name for the host variable, no luck.setting the connection type to sftp and ftp, no luck.

config) can be used to change session timeout. So far I have tried these things suggested on the internet: Connection timeout - SFTP Sublime text to Im trying to use the SFTP. When I try to browse the server directory Sublime asks me for a password to the user rather than the passphrase of the key file as if I didn't have a private key. I have generated the keys using PuTTYGen and loaded the private key into Pageant too.

I'm trying to set up an SSH connection on a windows 7 computer. Ensuring that git password caching is set up so you dont always have to type your GitHub password when you push and pull.

Sublime text sftp server does not ask for password