so we know the connection is ok there must be some sort of fire wall on macbook

Have a look here www.macinstruct.com/node/165

If you can:

then you should be able to copy a file from your local machine to the remote machine by:

and you should be able to copy a file from your remote machine to your local machine by:

Things to note are:

• You are copying the file or logging in as the same username on both systems and if not, then append remotebox.sld.tld with "joeuser@" (if your remote username is 'joeuser'.
• You want to copy from your current working directory to the user's home directory (~/) on the remote box or from the home directory on the remotebox to your current directory on your local machine (.).

If the username is different on the remote machine from what the username is that you are logged in as on the local machine, then:

NOTE: In that last example, there must be a ~joeuser/stuff directory or the command will fail.

to copy from the remote box to the current working directory on your local machine:

I hope that helps

Kindest regards,

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LOL....you guys are going to kill me. I ran scp from the server!

So when I when ran scp kyros@serverIPAddress:some.file .

that would copy some.file over itself.

I realized that I should be on the computer where I want the file copied to. LOL.

Thanks for your help though

Don't fret, everybody makes mistakes LOL