scp problem

mbegovic · 12-10-2005, 10:45 AM

Hi all,

I don't really know the first thing about networks, so this may be a ridiculous question.

I'm booting up a windows box with a linux live cd and trying to either ftp or scp a bunch of files to a mac box. Two questions:

how would i recursivelly put all directories using ftp?

when i try scp, like so:
scp -r root@localhost:/whatever/* user@IP:/whatever
i get something like: could not connect to localhost, localhost: connection denied

thanks,

Milos.

anomie · 12-10-2005, 03:17 PM

It is not necessary to provide a user and hostname for your local machine. In the command you're using you are telling scp to log into ssh on localhost, and ssh may not even be running on the loopback device. Even if it was the step is redundant.

So try

Code:

scp -r directory_here user_here@host_here:~

instead.

I added the ':~' to explicitly point it to that user's home directory. (The scp program may already do that by default.)

mbegovic · 12-11-2005, 04:17 PM

thanks a lot. that worked.

m.