[Semibug] Question on SCP

Josh Grosse josh at jggimi.net
Sun Jun 19 06:25:49 EDT 2022


On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 11:39:12PM -0600, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> I use this to copy from the remote machine (OpenBSD) to the Linux box
> scp cleetus at 192.168.11.21:MuttPOP3.txt cleetus at 192.168.11.4:
> ssh: connect to host 192.168.11.4 port 22: Connection refused
> 
> I am trying to copy the file MuttPOP3.txt from OpenBSD to my Linux computer.
> the ssh server is running on OpenBSD. I ssh into OpenBSD from the linux computer.

Jonathan,

scp(1) requires a listening server at the remote end of the connection. 
You don't have one provisioned.  Either provision a server on your Linux
platform, or, run sftp(1) from the Linux platform; it is an ssh(1) file
transfer client that can transfer files in either direction.

> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2022, at 22:34, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> > Hi Folks:
> > 
> > A question on SSH use. I SSH into my OpenBSD computer from my Linux
> > computer/ OpenBSD has sshd running but Linux does not. I can copy files
> > from the Linux computer to the OpenBSD one, but I can't copy them from
> > the OpenBSD computer. What am I doing wrong here?
> > 
> > --
> > Kind regards,
> > Jonathan
> > 
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