I'm trying to use scp to get a file from my desktop onto the server for my school. I'm connected via VPN and using PuTTy to try to do this. I've tried every single combination/permutation/help site on the web that I can think of and I still can't get this thing working. This is what I get:

[palermo@matrix hw2]$ scp synoptic.data palermo@matrix:/rhome/palermo/ats652/hw2
palermo@matrix's password:
synoptic.data: No such file or directory


Yet the file sits, in all it's glory, on my desktop. What have I missed here? This is for a homework due next week, so the urgency is kind of on.

Thanks in advance for helping!

Katie

Well, I notice you're in a directory called hw2. If synoptic.data is on your desktop, you have the wrong path. Try

Okay... I think this is where the problem is.

[palermo@matrix hw2]$ scp ~/Desktop/synoptic.data palermo@matrix:/rhome/palermo/ats652/hw2
palermo@matrix's password:
/rhome/palermo/Desktop/synoptic.data: Not a directory


I'm using the PuTTy on the server for my school so it's looking there for the file. How do I make it look on my C drive?

I'm a little new at this... :-}

Linux doesn't have a C: drive, that's an MS thing.
Which machine are you logged into and which machine and dir is the file in?

If you're on an MS system that has Putty and you want to scp to a remote (school) Linux system, then

cd c:/path_to_file
pscp filename user@remote:/remote_path

note putty has its own scp called 'pscp'

chrism Thanks but that didn't work either. I'm on a MS system, and the server I'm trying to send it to also is MS, but all connected with Linux. I tried using cd c:/ but it didn't like that either:

[palermo@matrix hw2]$ cd c:/
-bash: cd: c:/: No such file or directory

Nevermind, I was just told of the amazing WinSCP program. Wonderful lifesaving tool, that is