use of scp from server to laptop

BroX · 01-13-2005, 03:59 AM

Hey all,

I use scp to copy files from my laptop to my directory on our university server.

Q: how do copy files the other way around, from the server to my laptop? Do I have to add my server username (or something else?) to /etc/hosts.allow?

I got the following error:

Code:

 scp participants.cgi leon@leon-fyg.utu.fi:/home/leon/
Secure connection to leon-fyg.utu.fi refused.
lost connection
unix.utu.fi:/www/users/l/leobro/cgi-bin>

unix.utu.fi is the server, leon-fyg is the hostname of my laptop.

Any advice more than welcome!

Cheers, Leon.

overlord73 · 01-13-2005, 04:23 AM

copy from remote to local:
scp user@host:/dir/file ./

copy from local to remote:
scp file user@host:/dir

...always: from - to

overlord73 · 01-13-2005, 04:24 AM

>Secure connection to leon-fyg.utu.fi refused.

seems like a connection prob, not syntax.
firewall?

overlord73 · 01-13-2005, 04:27 AM

is there something in /var/log/secure?

BroX · 01-13-2005, 04:42 AM

overlord73,

I have no firewall (at least, nothing else than the default Slack install), and no entries in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.

Here is /var/log/secure of today:

Code:

root@leon-fyg:/home/leon# cat /var/log/secure
Jan 13 00:28:16 leon-fyg su[4512]: + pts/1 leon-root
Jan 13 00:30:31 leon-fyg su[4903]: + pts/1 leon-root
Jan 13 10:54:35 leon-fyg su[1402]: + pts/1 leon-root
Jan 13 12:37:33 leon-fyg su[1624]: + pts/1 leon-root
root@leon-fyg:/home/leon#

overlord73 · 01-13-2005, 05:46 AM

a protocol/configure problem!?
perhaps the server (in this case the Laptop!) is configured to use SSH1 and your client uses SSH2....?SSH1 attempts to fall back to the "r"- commands when it cannot connect to a SSH daemon.
ehm...where are you logged in??
>scp participants.cgi leon@leon-fyg.utu.fi:/home/leon/
-> is from laptop to server!?!

BroX · 01-13-2005, 06:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by overlord73
a protocol/configure problem!?
perhaps the server (in this case the Laptop!) is configured to use SSH1 and your client uses SSH2....?SSH1 attempts to fall back to the "r"- commands when it cannot connect to a SSH daemon.

How can I check which SSH protocol is used on either side?
In /etc/ssh/ssh_config everything is commented. Should I change some settings there?

Code:

# Site-wide defaults for various options

# Host *
#   ForwardAgent no
#   ForwardX11 no
#   RhostsRSAAuthentication no
#   RSAAuthentication yes
#   PasswordAuthentication yes
#   HostbasedAuthentication no
#   BatchMode no
#   CheckHostIP yes
#   AddressFamily any
#   ConnectTimeout 0
#   StrictHostKeyChecking ask
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
#   Port 22
#   Protocol 2,1
#   Cipher 3des
#   Ciphers aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc
#   EscapeChar ~

Quote:

ehm...where are you logged in??
>scp participants.cgi leon@leon-fyg.utu.fi:/home/leon/
-> is from laptop to server!?!

I am logged in at the laptop (leon-fyg.utu.fi) as user 'leon'. Then I connect to the server where my username is leobro: ssh leobro@unix.utu.fi

overlord73 · 01-13-2005, 06:29 AM

ssh_config is ssh-client and sshd_config is ssh-daemon!
in both files there is an entry:
Protocol 2,1 (means ´use first SSH2 then SSH1´)
----
ok, if I understand u corect, u want to copy a file from SERVER to ur LAPTOP, while ur logged in on LAPTOP. -> there´s no need to ssh to SERVER!
on laptop console:
leon-fyg.utu.fi> scp leobro@unix.utu.fi:/home/leobro/FILENAME ./

should connect to SERVER and copy the remote file to localdir!

BroX · 01-13-2005, 06:40 AM

THANKS!
I apologise for my ignorance in all this

Cheers, Leon.