[MacPC]

Hi,

I am trying to learn to use the scp command. My setup is like this, A Mac mini and a Windows2000 PC. I have setup the Mac as the SSH host and the PC as the client using PuTTY. I can SSH to the Mac without a glich, but since the two systems are on the same LAN, so they have the same domain name-macmini.DynDNS.com

In PuTTY, I typed in:
scp *.rtf myUserName@macmini.DynDNS.com:testFile.rtf

I get this message:
scp: testFile.rtf: No such file or directory.

What have I done wrong here? Do I need to have a different domain name for my PC as well?

Thanks in advance.

MacPC

[mduell]

You can't copy a selection of files (*.rtf) to a single file (testFile.rtf).

Either copy them one at a time or copy them all to an existing folder.

[MacPC]

DAH! But of course, what was I thinking.

I tired this:
scp test.rtf myUserName@macmini.DynDNS.com:myTestFile.rtf

It does make a copy but it goes to the Document folder on my Mac, not to my PC. How do it get it to copy to my PC? Looks like I need another domain name for my PC, am I right?

MacPC

[enola]

Use the IP address of the PC?

[kick52]

Originally Posted by MacPC 

DAH! But of course, what was I thinking.

I tired this:
scp test.rtf myUserName@macmini.DynDNS.com:myTestFile.rtf

It does make a copy but it goes to the Document folder on my Mac, not to my PC. How do it get it to copy to my PC? Looks like I need another domain name for my PC, am I right?

MacPC

i'm guessing you have the PC and Mac Mini set up on LAN?

you could set up a proxy on your router/computer directly connected to the net, with a port number of 6789 or something. Then, bind the hostname to something.dyndns.com:6789

I think that will work.



Wait. If they are on the LAN, just find out the LAN IP of the PC and Mac Mini, (should be something like 10.0.2.1) and go "ssh user@10.0.2.1"

[[APi]TheMan]

Hey there, looks like you're a little turned around... When you use Putty to SSH to your Mac, it is as if you are sitting on your Mac typing on your Mac. So when you scp a file to macmini.dyndns.org it is going... to your Mac.

What you should do is use WinSCP from your PC to connect to your Macintosh. WinSCP is much like an FTP client and will allow you to connect to your Mac and see a list of files, which you can then download to your PC.

The SSH server running on your Mac is very neat because it allows you to access it via SSH (Putty), SCP (WinSCP), and SFTP (WinSCP). The server running behind the scenes is the OpenSSH daemon that Apple has included in Mac OS X, and it allows you to do all this without any extra configuration! Your PC is not running any kind of SSH server, so you cannot connect directly to it to copy files.