I have certain files in a folder on my local machine (Windows 8) and I want to transfer them to a remote server (Windows server 2012 R2) using a batch script.
Shown below is the script that I am trying to run but it throws an Invalid drive specification error. Note: I am sure that there is a folder called test in the specified location.
map.bat
xcopy /-y C:\Users\ssubburathinam\Documents\map1\*.* \\192.168.1.11\C:\Users\ssubburathinam\Desktop\test\ /d /c /y
pause
Screenshot of error
I do not know where to put my login credentials in this script as the remote server has login enabled. How can I accomplish this?
I recommend you to use the "Add a network location" in the main computer, so you can see a new drive letter with the network location. For your try, it might be wrong the share name on the remote computer, if you share a folder, usually is called by:
\\IP_or_name_of_the_remote_server\shared_name
I need to get the filesize of a remote executable file which its process is running on a remote xp machine.
it must be done from a Windows system using only a batch file and only from a command line.
sigcheck.exe cannot be used because it does not take control over remote files.
I can not even map the remote disk to do that.
Hope someone have a good solution.
thanks in advance.
When I try downloading a file from my server onto my computer, it actually downloads the file onto the server.
(Note I am already SSH'd into my server before typing this command. I've watched tutorials on YouTube and people are using their terminal without SSHing into any particular server, however I don't think I can do this with PuTTY on Windows?)
scp -r -P2222 kwazy#mywebsite.example:/home2/kwazy/www/utrecht-connected.nl ~/Desktop/
The problem is that I am specifying the location to download the file as only ~/Desktop/
This creates a folder called Desktop in my server, instead of copying the files onto my local desktop.
I am able to use this command on Linux.
I have successfully download the folder onto my desktop:
I still need insight onto how I can do this on a Windows machine.
There's no way to initiate a file transfer back to/from local Windows from a SSH session opened in PuTTY window.
Though PuTTY supports connection-sharing.
While you still need to run a compatible file transfer client (pscp or psftp), no new login is required, it automatically (if enabled) makes use of an existing PuTTY session.
To enable the sharing see:
Sharing an SSH connection between PuTTY tools.
Even without connection-sharing, you can still use the psftp or pscp from Windows command line.
See How to use PSCP to copy file from Unix machine to Windows machine ...?
Note that the scp is OpenSSH program. It's primarily *nix program, but you can run it via Windows Subsystem for Linux or get a Windows build from Win32-OpenSSH (it is already built-in in the recent versions of Windows 10 and in Windows 11).
If you really want to download the files to a local desktop, you have to specify a target path as %USERPROFILE%\Desktop (what typically resolves to a path like C:\Users\username\Desktop).
Alternative way is to use WinSCP, a GUI SFTP/SCP client. While you browse the remote site, you can anytime open SSH terminal to the same site using Open in PuTTY command.
See Opening Session in PuTTY.
With an additional setup, you can even make PuTTY automatically navigate to the same directory you are browsing with WinSCP.
See Opening PuTTY in the same directory.
(I'm the author of WinSCP)
try this scp -r -P2222 kwazy#mywebsite.example:/home2/kwazy/www/utrecht-connected.nl /Desktop
Another easier option if you're going to be pulling files left and right is to just use an SFTP client like WinSCP. Then you're not typing out 100 characters every time you want to pull something, just drag and drop.
Just noticed /Desktop probably isn't where you're looking to download the file to. Should be something like C:\Users\you\Desktop
OpenSSH has been added to Windows as of autumn 2018, and is included in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.
So you can use it in command prompt or power shell like bellow.
C:\Users\Parsa>scp parsa#192.168.100.11:/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml F:\Temporary
parsa#192.168.100.11's password:
cassandra.yaml 100% 66KB 71.3KB/s 00:00
C:\Users\Parsa>
(I know this question is pretty old now but this can be helpful for newcomers to this question)
if you install git with git bash, you get SCP available on windows.
You can use WinSCP : https://winscp.net/eng/download.php
Or MobaXterm : https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html
It feels like FTP client. Also I don't remember setting up anything on my machine for this. It just fresh install and install SSH server (IDK if it matters though).
For MobaXterm :
If your server have a http service you can compress your directory and download the compressed file.
Compress:
tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz -C directory-name .
Download throught your browser:
http://the-server-ip/archive-name.tar.gz
If you don't have direct access to the server ip, do a ssh tunnel throught putty, and forward the 80 port in some local port, and you can download the file.
You can use the WinSPC program. Its access to any server is pretty easy. The program gives its guide too. I hope it's helpfull.
If you need something with GUI you can use FileZilla. it support SFTP.
It's perfectly working with ssh and you can even edit files and it will automatically upload the changes.
I have a Perl script which maps two drives, and then proceeds to copy files one of the drives to the other. The Perl script is located on a Windows box, but we are SSHing from a Linux box into the Windows box to execute the script. When I run the script directly from the Windows box, everything works without issue, the drives are mapped and the files are copied over successfully. When I attempt to execute the script from my Linux box via SSH, the script fails and I get the following output:
The local device name is already in use.
Error mapping source \\xxx.xxx.net\localdirectory
This error occurs when attempting to map the first drive, I don't know if it would fail on the second drive as well since it has not made it that far.
I have several other Perl scripts that are executed this same way (via ssh from Linux to Windows box) and they execute without issue, this is the only one that maps a drive though. This is the code I am using to execute the script:
#!/bin/sh
ssh -t -t user#server "cd /Path/to/Perl/Script; /cygdrive/C/Perl/bin/perl.exe Script.pl"
What user is your ssh daemon running as? Presumably System. That user doesn't have authority to map network drives, as far as I recall. Can you not just do this on the Linux box directly using samba?
In case anyone needs this in the future, we we're able to get it working. The issue was due to the SVCCopSSH being used for the CopSSH service on our Windows machine. We had to disable the CopSSH service, set the Log On as the network account we were using to SSH from Linux to Windows, and restart the service. This fixed all issues we were having.
How can I launch a program on a remote windows machine, so that it uses the remote's machine processor and ram.
details:
i have mapped another computers folder to a local drive. in this folder i want to launch an exe via a windows batch file so that it uses the remote computers ressources and not the local ones.
Use sysinternals (now on microsoft) PsExec.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553
As far as I know, You can't launch an exe on a remote machine unless you are logged into that remote machine in some way. Either by Remote Desktop Connection or through some shell.