copy or transfer files between 2 Linux computers
 

Hi everyone, I am newbie for Linux. I have 2 Linux computers. I would like to copy file from one Linux computer to another. So how can I do that? Is there any command line to do that? Thanks million.

There is ssh, scp, samba and ftp.

I had installed ssh in both machines. And I tried to use scp also. But that scp asked me the password. I don't know password.

I don't know password :(

I did this by copying the file onto a flash memory stick, moving the stick to the other computer, and copying from the stick onto the hard drive. Drag and drop, easy.

Daniel B. Martin

Ha ha.. for like that of thing, I won't come to this forum and ask. I wanna transfer with command line.

If the account is yours, you should know the password or ask the administrator to reset a new one for you. If you are the root user, you can reset the password with

This is optional, but once you get a new password, you can setup private key authentication to login automatically. Youtube has many tutorials on this subject.

is it my debian's password? But after I type debian's password, it said :(

check out this link it might help:
Using rsync to Transfer and Synchronize Local and Remote Systems

http://www.liquidweb.com/kb/using-rs...emote-systems/

or check out this thread, check the last post:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...es-4175487365/

hi thanks for your answer. It is still asking me the password, I entered my debian password, still cannot.

You are login as root or what user account?

Do you use sudo to copy?

Have you check sudoers file?

Hi thanks for your answer. I can get it. My keyboard was using wrong language. So when I type password, it is not correct. thanks.

glad you figured it out..which settings did you change the language?

Coz I m using window 7. I used VMware to use debian as well. So debian keyboard and window 7 is using the same. I changed different language for my window 7 keyboard. so... :)
anyway thanks for your help :)

I thought you have 2 Linux computer as what you stated on your post number 1 but now its on VMWare.. cool :)

@ why_so_serious

When you said you enter your password and couldn't connect, I assumed the other possible reason is the root user setup his ssh server to accept only private keys authentication and no passwords because I read it is more secure to login to ssh servers with private keys as to passwords.

Anyway, I'm glad you got it solved by correcting the keyboard language.