'scp' using broadband?

Hi,

I am having problems copying files using 'scp' from my machine in my
department to my home machine. I am using SUSE 10.

This is my question. When using broadband, how do I know what my ip
address is?
I did an 'sbin/ifconfig' and I see my current ip address. When I
'scp file user@ip_address:~/'

nothing happens.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
M

On Tue, 02 May 2006 13:49:49 -0700, mhurley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having problems copying files using 'scp' from my machine in my
> department to my home machine. I am using SUSE 10.
>
> This is my question. When using broadband, how do I know what my ip
> address is?

> I did an 'sbin/ifconfig' and I see my current ip address.

Yes, good.

When I 'scp file
> user@ip_address:~/'

The command should be something like:

scp file_i_want_to_transfer user@home_ip_address:/path/to/where_it_goes

> nothing happens.

What do you mean 'nothing happens'? You must have got a message of some
sort. Or did it just hang? Did have to do a ctrl-C to get the prompt
back?

Dan

Yes, my posting wasn't that clear. I did

scp file_i_want_to_transfer user@home_ip_address:/path/to/where_it_goes


but it just hangs. After a few minutes it says that it timed out!!?

Thanks
M

On Wed, 03 May 2006 03:27:00 -0700, mhurley wrote:

> Yes, my posting wasn't that clear. I did
>
> scp file_i_want_to_transfer user@home_ip_address:/path/to/where_it_goes
>
>
> but it just hangs. After a few minutes it says that it timed out!!?
>
> Thanks
> M

First try if you can ssh to that machine:

ssh your_username@home_ip_address

On Wed, 03 May 2006 12:39:23 +0200, maxx wrote:


> First try if you can ssh to that machine:
>
> ssh your_username@home_ip_address

And if that doesn't work try a ping.

Is sshd installed and running on the remote machine?

Dan

On 2 May 2006 13:49:49 -0700, mhurley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I am having problems copying files using 'scp' from my machine in my
| department to my home machine. I am using SUSE 10.
|
| This is my question. When using broadband, how do I know what my ip
| address is?
| I did an 'sbin/ifconfig' and I see my current ip address. When I
| 'scp file user@ip_address:~/'
|
| nothing happens.
|
| Can anyone help?


What IP address do you see? How are you connected to the broadband
link?

Does your home broadband connection have a firewall?

If the IP address you see looks like 192.168.x.y then you won't be able
to connect over the internet using that address. Your broadband modem
might have another external address for external connections and be
using address translations to make outgoinf connections.


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