Hello everybody,

I am an absolute newbie trying to solve an annoying problem.

I have a win 2000 laptop that crashed a couple of days ago before I could save some important data.

I imagined two scenarios to recover my data:

Scenario 1- Boot the laptop with Knoppix and burn the data on CD-R.

Booting with Knoppix works fine and I can see my hda1 on the desktop but I don't know how to get the data to CD-R.

BTW, my CD burner is a Micro Solutions parallel port Backpack.

2- Transfer the data via FTP or using scp to another Linux machine and find a way to burn it on CD-R from there.

I had an old unused 400 MHz desktop and I installed Mandrake 9.0 on it.

I connected the two machines (the laptop under Knoppix and the desktop under Mandrake 9.0) via an Ethernet crossover cable and set the IP addresses, the netmask and the gateway address.

I can ping between the two machines but when I try to use an FTP command or the scp command I get the message "connection refused".

Here is a sample of the scp command I tried from the laptop, in the directory where the *.doc files reside:

scp *.doc 192.168.0.3:/home/emmanuel

192.168.0.3 is the address of the destination machine and /home/emmanuel the destination directory

Error message: ssh: connect to address 192.168.0.3 port 22: connection refused

I suspect I am missing some kind of authentification between the machines.

Any help with one of theses scenarios will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.


Emmanuel

Welcome to LQ.

Do you have any firewall rules set on linux? If so then try removing them then the copy again:
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -F

Thanks for your help, David.

I tried theses commands on both machines and the transfer stills does not work. I'll keep searching.

Thanks again.


Emmanuel

Check to make sure a ftp server is running.

Or sshd in the case of using scp.

Hi David and Michael,

Sorry for this long pause but it was for a good cause.

First, I did not know I had to have an FTP server or sshd running.

Taking heed to both your posts, I ran out and bought "Linux Administration, A Beginner's guide". No particular preference here, only the word "Beginner" and a quick browse in the TOC guided my choice.

After reading these chapters and installing ProFTPD, I could do my transfers.

I learnt a few things in the process, above all how friendly and helpful the Linux community is, and last, but not least, that from now on I will commit my important files only to a Linux machine properly set up.

Thanks again.


Emmanuel

Good to see you got everything working as you wanted.