Quoting Nick <bellsoffreedom at animail.net>:

> Hello again,
>
> Background:
> I have a Suse 9.0 Linux box set up as 192.168.1.2
> I've a Win XP Home Edition box as 192.168.1.1
> I've got Putty and Winscp installed on the winbox. I'm trying to
> pull a few small directories from the Linux box to Windows. They're
> attached with a crossover cable. Both ping eachother.
>
> As per previous help from all of you (Thanks!) I've got my SSH
> Daemon running on Linux, and my firewall is off on Linux (always
> was.) The windows box doesn't have a firewall.
>
> Problem:
> Still, no matter what, when trying to pscp -r and pull from Linux to
> Windows I get the error: ssh init: Connection timed out. (I'm doing
> this from the Windows command prompt.) I don't have it in front of
> me, but I'm following the syntax for the command exactly as several
> listmembers here wrote it out.
>
> Any ideas? There's got to be some simple setting I'm missing.
>
> Thanks!
> Nick
>
>
Quoting Nick <bellsoffreedom at animail.net>:

> Hello again,
>
> Background:
> I have a Suse 9.0 Linux box set up as 192.168.1.2
> I've a Win XP Home Edition box as 192.168.1.1
> I've got Putty and Winscp installed on the winbox. I'm trying to
> pull a few small directories from the Linux box to Windows. They're
> attached with a crossover cable. Both ping eachother.
>
> As per previous help from all of you (Thanks!) I've got my SSH
> Daemon running on Linux, and my firewall is off on Linux (always
> was.) The windows box doesn't have a firewall.
>
> Problem:
> Still, no matter what, when trying to pscp -r and pull from Linux to
> Windows I get the error: ssh init: Connection timed out. (I'm doing
> this from the Windows command prompt.) I don't have it in front of
> me, but I'm following the syntax for the command exactly as several
> listmembers here wrote it out.
>
> Any ideas? There's got to be some simple setting I'm missing.
>
> Thanks!
> Nick
>
>

Basic troubleshooting:

Can you ping the linux box from the windows box?

Can you ping the windows box from the linux box?

Can you ssh to localhost on the linux box?

Josh