PuTTY pscp command and the -scp option

[reve...@globalit.us.com]

Anyone have an idea why on windows 2008 if you run the PuTTY pscp command with the -scp option it would come back with the following error:

rbash: scp: command not found

I have PuTTY and all the parts, putty, pscp..., all in my path. And PuTTY itself works fine, I just can get pscp with the -scp option to work.

Thanks all!!!

[Jacob Nevins]

That error message is likely coming from the remote server.

The scp "protocol" involves sending a command to the remote server like
"scp -f src" or "scp -t target", and assuming the remote server has an
"scp" command on the path (or behaves like a Unix server which does).

I guess your server doesn't have such an "scp" command.

[Owen Dunn]

reve...@globalit.us.com writes:

> Anyone have an idea why on windows 2008 if you run the PuTTY pscp
> command with the -scp option it would come back with the following
> error:
>
> rbash: scp: command not found

That's a message from the remote server which you're connecting to.
SCP clients like pscp connect to the remote server and run `scp' on
the other end to get files. In your case it looks like your server
administrator has restricted the configuration on the server so that
you can't run the `scp' command.

In general you're usually better using the SFTP protocol anyway, which
is what pscp will try to do by default if you don't give it the -scp
option.

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