I usually get to the RH7.1 machine at the university using ssh from other computers.

It went everything ok till today. I was using a win2000, I executed ssh and managed to see the console but when I tryed to open the file transfer window it gave me the following error:

Exit value 0 was returned. Most likely the sftp-server is not in the path of the user on the server-side.

Does that mean that there is an executable called sftp-server that I have to add to my user PATH?. Did I somehow delete it, or can it be a different error? Sorry, I don`t know so much about networks.

One other application called putty works fine but I don't know why doesn't work with ssh.

any idea?

if you have a look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (or a similar location) you should have a variable sftp-server set to the location of the binary, check that exists...

well, I think there isn't any sftp-server variable or similar, pointed to /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server (this is the binary isn't it?). the only thing I can find is this line in sshd_config (I don't know what does it mean):

Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

should I add a variable called sftp-server pointed to the binary?

well that was the one i meant.... what if you just run that executable locally?

If I execute sftp-server I get this:

> /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server &
[6] 7209
> ps -x
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
7143 pts/0 S 0:00 -bash
7209 pts/0 T 0:00 /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
7212 pts/0 R 0:00 ps -x

[6]+ Stopped /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

aargh, it was workin well till today. any other idea?

btw, thanks for your time.

ssh is causing me some trouble too

I have that same problem on a few machine from some time now.

on one, sftp never worked. on another, sftp worked once, then the machine was rebooted and it desn't work aynmore. on a third, it worked straight away and still does.

on either, when running the exec locally, I get no error. sftp-server is started, but the problem is still the same.

on the first machine (where sftp never worked), I get a slightly different window requesting my password , but once the password is given there's another dialog saying "enter your authentication response", to which you can say either yes or no. this isn't much of a problem, but it bores me (so if you have a clue, oh yes please tell me)

argh, I whish I had some kind of error... (don't we always do)

I have found the answer!!

by luck I must say, I wasn't looking for it anymore

it could be true for ssh too...

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I just checked. It is true.

have a nice day