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