Quoting Nick <bellsoffreedom at animail.net>: > Okay. I was using rcp to push from Linux to Windows. As per > everyone's advice, I installed Putty and WinSCP on my windows > machine. I did "pscp -r blah blah blah" exactly as explained, from > my Win box. I'm certain my syntax was correct. > > Problem: > I get the error "ssh init: Connection timed out." It times out after > ten seconds. I'm guessing this problem is on the Linux side but for > the life of me I couldn't find where to change it. What's the > easiest way to fix this problem? > > I'm getting closer to getting my home network up and running! (Still > a networking newbie, so that's a big deal.) > THANK YOU to everyone, especially Adam and Shawn, who've answered > countless questions about this. I've got info that's really > important to me on my Linux system, which has been infinitely better > than when I stored the info on a Windows system. I just need to be > able to copy my files from Linux to Windows in order to backup, > print, burn to CD's, etc. > To clarify, you are trying to copy files from Linux to Windows. On the windows box you run something like pscp -r nick at remotehost.com:/some/directory c:\backup You get an error on your Windows host that says ssh init: Connection timed out. Because that ssh init error sounds like a Linux error and you should be running pscp from the Windows box. Let me know if I am confused. Josh