Problem Statement- I want to copy some files from remote machine (linux) to my windows machine. I know I can do it using pscp.
I tried looking on the internet, I found several articles, but in those articles I was not able to understand and I was having lot of problems in copying the files from Linx box to Windows.
Can anyone provide me step by step method here, so that I can follow that to transfer files. That will be of great help to me.
I am connected to host cli.vip.host.com using putty and that is linux with username- rkost and password as- password. And I want to copy file a.txt from linux to windows.
Download PSCP from below link
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
Run PSCP
Got to command prompt
Use the below code
Copy single file
pscp user#host:remote_path/file_name host_path\file_name
eg: pscp user1#192.168.1.10:/home/user2/a.txt c:\Desktop\a.txt
Copy all files in a folder
pscp user#host:remote_path/* host_path\
eg: pscp user1#192.168.1.10:/home/user2/* c:\Desktop\test\
Copy all files & folders in a folder
pscp -r user#host:remote_path/ host_path\
eg: pscp -r user1#192.168.1.10:/home/user2/ c:\Desktop\test\
For this kind of problem I use all the time netcat. First, you start netcat as server on a machine with an ip IP_address, and afterwards you send the file from the other machine.
nc -l -p <port-number> > out_file
will start it as server in "listen" state, and will save what you send to it in the file "out_file".(check the man page of your version for more parameters.)
From the other machine you send the file something like this:
< file_to_send nc IP_address
(If you want to send an whole directory, you use tar )
I never used it under Windows (because I work as linux engineer). But you can find nc for windows, that work the same as in linux...
if you want to use pscp, you can do this:
pscp -pw password rkost#cli.vip.host.com:/path/to/file c:\path\
if this doesn't work try to add enviroment variable:
set PATH=C:\path\to\putty\directory;%PATH%
After installing POWERSHELL
wow64_microsoft-windows-powershell-exe
you can open the terminal and execute this command line
pscp -r -P Port user#IP:path WINDOWS path
example:
pscp -r -P 2222 user#MyDommain.com:/var/www/html C:\2023\HTML
Make sure you are connected to your vpn server, (i.e. cli.vip.host.com)
use following command from your windows machine
pscp -v rkost#remote_ip_addr:/path/to/file/a.txt c:/some_location/
you can see the verbose with -v flag.
If you wants to copy directory from remote linux machine to your windows
just refer my answer in this
PSCP copy files from godaddy to my windows machine
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Usually we use SCP or PSCP to transfer files between local machine and remote machine. But i need to know if there's a way i can transfer image/text files between machines using PLINK.
Any help will be appreciated.
To post a file from local machine to remote machine, following command works.
plink ubuntu#111.111.01.xyz -pw password < "D:\\CSV\\001.jpg" "cat > /home/001.jpg"
This will transfer 001.jpg from local machine's D:\\CSV\\001.jpg directory to home/ directory of remote machine.
Background: I did not have permission to transfer file to remote server using PSCP. I could use plink, and it worked.
This will transfer a.txt from the machine you execute the command to the base folder of the machine your connecting.
plink username#10.20.30.40 -pw password < C:\Users\username\Desktop\a.txt "cat > ~/a.txt"
I'm trying to copy a file from a Ubuntu server to my mac but I keep receiving a No such file or directory error.
After I ssh in I'm using:
scp -p 8888 me#xx1.xx1.xx1.xx1:/var/www/html/00000001.jpg /Users/myusername/Documents/
But receive the error:
/Users/myusername/Documents/: No such file or directory
Is this error telling me that there is no such file or directory on my local machine? Any advice as to how to fix would be greatly appreciated.
Don't ssh in to your server first. Just execute that scp command from your local machine.
EDIT:
Also, the -p should be capitalized (according to the manpage on my machine), so:
scp -P 8888 your_username#remotehost.edu:/var/www/html/00000001.jpg /Users/myusername/Documents/
Yes, it's talking about your local machine. I'm guessing that you might have just typed something wrong. Try doing it like this instead:
scp -P 8888 me#xx1.xx1.xx1.xx1:/var/www/html/00000001.jpg ~/Documents/
Make sure you're typing this command at your Mac OS X Terminal prompt, not on the actual remote server. xx1.xx1.xx1.xx1 should be the remote Ubuntu machine ("pull" the file down to your machine, don't try to "push" it).
Also, although it's ssh -p, it's scp -P. For scp, -p just preserves modification times, and -P is the port.
Maybe you have multiple ssh connections open.
Try close all other connections and restart the scp command.
I use SSH to connect to my Ubuntu instance. With SSH I can administer files and folders on the instance, but how do I upload files and folders from my local machine to the instance?
Is it possible to do right from SSH session, without using SFTP clients?
Just to add a bit more detail to the scp command (included in OSx and most linux/unix):
scp -i myssh.pem local_file username#200.200.200.200:/home/username
Obviously - replace the pem file with the one used for ssh access. Obviously replace "username" and "200.200.200.." with valid values for your setup.
You can try kitten utility which is a wrapper around boto3. You can easily upload/download files and run commands on EC2 server or on multiple servers at once for that matter.
kitten put -i ~/.ssh/key.pem cat.jpg /tmp [SERVER NAME][SERVER IP]
Where server name is e.g ubuntu or ec2-user etc.
This will upload cat.jpg file to /tmp directory of server
As mentioned already, I've used WinSCP, which logs me in as "ec2-user" - then make sure to adjust that user's permissions via SSH. Example:
chown -R ec2-user /path/to/files
(Authenticate as the root user first.)
Whatever folder or files you need to edit via WinSCP, allow permissions on them (otherwise you will get a permission denied error when trying to upload/edit files in WinSCP).
you cannot copy files using ssh. you can use scp/sftp.
scp if you are on linux or winscp if you are on windows
You can use this:
scp -i yourkeypair.pem source destination
This Works Fine
scp -r -i myssh.pem /local/directory remote_username#10.10.0.2:/remote/directory
-r for recursive
You could also install and set up an FTP Server, which will allow you to set up users, and directories for them to upload to. That being said, I've upvoted the above because scp/sftp is the ideal method.
The easiest way is to install webmin and user the file manager (java plugin) from your browser.
//Go to home folder
cd ~
//Download the latest version
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.660-1.noarch.rpm
//install
sudo rpm -U webmin-1.660-1.noarch.rpm
//Change default password of root user
passwd
Finally, open port 10000 in the security groups
Then, log into
https://server_name:10000
with user:root password:what_you_set_before
I have a folder in my Desktop. I want to copy it to my server in Terminal.
I tried this unsuccessfully
[~/bin]# cp -r /Users/Sam/Desktop/tig-0.14.1 ~/bin/
cp: cannot stat `/Users/Sam/Desktop/tig-0.14.1': No such file or directory
[edit]
I run the command in my server. The problem seems to be in the fact that "/Users/Sam/Desktop/tig-0.14.1" is a folder in my Mac, not in my server.
Perhaps, I cannot move the folder so simply to my server because my server do not know where my folder locates.
I have always moved the folder by GUI. Is the same possible also just in terminal?
From the server:
scp -r username#A.B.C.D:~/Desktop/tig-0.14.1/ ~/bin/
username is your shortname on your local mac.
A.B.C.D is the IP address of your local mac as seen by the server.
You will be prompted for your password.
Or if you wanted to push from your local client:
scp -r ~/Desktop/tig-0.14.1/ serveruser#W.X.Y.Z:~/bin/
serveruser is the user on the server whose ~/bin you want to copy into.
W.X.Y.Z is the IP address of the server as seen by your client.
You will be prompted to enter serveruser's password.
scp is part of ssh. See 'man scp' (from the terminal) for more info.
From your Mac (not the server):
# scp -r ~/Desktop/tig-0.14.1 myUsername#myServerName:~/bin
replace myUsername and myServerName appropriately.
cp is not the correct command. Try scp instead; it has similar use and you can use it like this: (see the manual for reference)
from linux client:
scp user1#host1://Users/Sam/Desktop/tig-0.14.1 ~/bin/
if you use a windows client you can use winscp to do this in "drag&drop" style
cp: cannot stat/Users/Sam/Desktop/tig-0.14.1': No such file or directory`
That's the problem, alright: the file you're trying to copy is not where you thought, or not named what you typed. As suggested in comments you can try using tab completion at the prompt to make sure you have everything correct:
# cp /Users/Sam/Desk<TAB>
# cp /Users/Sam/Desktop/tig<TAB>
# cp /Users/Sam/Desktop/tig-0.14.1.tar.gz
Note that tig-0.14.1.tar.gz is probably the actual file name, as found in the wild...
I need to automatically copy files from a linux machine to a windows one every day.
I'm looking for something simple and secure like scp, rsync, sftp. Unfortunately, I'm at a loss of how to set this up on the Windows machine.
Does anyone know how to do this?
You can try mounting the Windows drive as a mount point on the Linux machine, using smbfs; you would then be able to use normal Linux scripting and copying tools such as cron and scp/rsync to do the copying.
You can find rsync for windows in cygwin, with that you can setup a rsync server on the windows box and run a cron job on your linux machine rsync'ing all the files to the windows machine. We used to do that and it worked fine.
"I'm at a loss of how to set this up on the Windows machine." Windows is the client or the server? At a loss means what, specifically? What can't you do?
"linux machine to a windows" can be done two ways.
Linux is client. Windows runs an FTP or SCP or SSH server. Linux has a client and pushes the file to Windows. Look at FileZilla for free windows FTP server. Also, windows often has an FTP service that's turned off. Turn it on.
Windows is client. Windows periodically pulls the file from the linux server. This is easier, since Linux already has all the necessary servers available. You do, howeveevr, need to start them on Linux.
There are scores of sftp, scp clients for Windows. Windows comes with an ftp client. Google for sftp client. You'll find WinSCP, Putty, filezilla, and list free country list of sftp clients.
I haven't used it in years now, but you could try Unison from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
It could be done with 'smbclient', which acts much like an FTP client to a Windows share. Check out the manpage: man smbclient and look for ways to script it with the -c option, or man expect to drive it.
Here's how I'd probably do it though:
Pick which user you're going to be
when you sync the files. Log in as
this user and type 'id', and get the
numeric ID. You will use this ID in
step 4
Become 'root'
mkdir /mnt/sharename
Edit your /etc/fstab file and add an entry something like this. Replace the user ID of 500 with your user ID. Replace sharename with your windows share name. Replance WINDOWSHOSTNAME with your host name or IP address. If you don't know the shares, run smbclient -L WINDOWSHOSTNAME.
//WINDOWSHOSTNAME/sharename /mnt/sharename cifs credentials=/root/smblogin,uid=500,noauto,user 0 0
Edit /root/smblogin and put the following two lines in it
username=YOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAME
password=YOUR_WINDOWS_PASSWOD
Log in as the user from step 1.
Try mounting the share: mount /mnt/sharename
If that succeeds, then write a script to do it automatically. Let's call it 'backup.sh':
#!/bin/sh
df | grep -q /mnt/sharename
if test $? -ne 0 ; then
mount /mnt/sharename
fi
cp -r /path/to/dir /mnt/sharename/destination/
Use cron to run the script.
Type crontab -e
Put the following in the file:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
# Backup at 2:15 A.M. every day. Run 'man 5 crontab' for help on the time format
15 2 * * * /path/to/backup.sh
You may try WinSCP and its scripting support. And Windows support some kind of cron-like operation in its management stuff, don't they?