How to transfer files between computers on a network

Eric Shubert ejs at shubes.net
Thu Oct 23 12:55:09 MST 2008


Josef Lowder wrote:
> Well, I think I'm finally getting closer, now that I understand
> what the actual syntax should look like with real data in it.
> This is what I tried:
> 
> $ scp /home/joe/mydata/track2 joe at 192.168.1.66:/home/joe/mydata/track2
> 
> That seemed to almost work ... except I got this reply:
> 
> ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.66 port 22: Connection refused
> lost connection
> 
> So why would that connection be refused, and how do I fix that?

Either a firewall is blocking port 22, or sshd isn't running on the 
target machine?

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'



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