On Saturday 01 November 2008 13:40:03 Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 01 November 2008 12:54:22 Bob Williams wrote:
Anne, thanks for your interest and reassurance, but I have a gremlin here. scp is almost more important to me than ssh, though the latter is now working, thanks to sterling help from David Rankin, who can expect a beer from me next time I'm passing through Nacogdoches :).
The clue is in the subject line (first word), in other words, the problem was in front of the keyboard, not inside the machine (wasn't it ever thus?) I have been issuing commands such as scp testfile sputnik:/home/robert without specifying a 'target' user. It should of course be scp testfile robert@sputnik:/home/robert Duh!!!
Good to know that you have a solution :-) Yes, David has been helping folk for years, to my knowledge.
I still owe you that beer, David, but it won't be real soon. I live in Sussex, UK.
I know I could use rsync, but it requires modules being setup beforehand, which makes it a bit less flexible for single file transfers.
Have you considered keychain? I use it to handle keys, and with that passing my authorisations I can have a folderview on my desktop to my home directory on my server box and to another data directory. If I just want to copy a few files across I can handle those directories in dolphin just like local ones. Keychain also makes it easy to do a backup shell script to rsync files between the two boxes.
I found an easy-to-follow howto on the net, set up keychain in about 5 minutes, and have blessed the day ever since :-)
Thanks for that. I shall certainly take a look at keychain, and also fish as suggested by Joe Morris.
Anne
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