I cannot use ssh to tunnel from Linux to Windows:

No I am connecting from Linux to Windows XP. I have a norton firewall however I tryed to ssh into windows with the firwall not configured. still says something to the affect of:

connection refused on port 22.

Could it be my router it is a lynksys.

I can connect via putty and filezilla from windows to Linux.

Here, it's just 2 things to get OpenSsh running on a box. The service and the poking at the firewall. Sorry, I don't offer any support of firewall configuration.

Bob

Bob,

I am running filezilla and putty. I just cant login via ssh from Linux to my windows computer. I even turned off the firewall. Could it be the router?

Gary

We could check with anyone to guess that one.

Sorry, but I must ask why the lacking details?

Bob

Bob,

Okay I have a Linksys router. I am not sure if it is even possible to use ssh at the terminal in Linux to get a secure tunnel into a Windows XP Pro machine or not. I am running filezilla and putty on the Windows machine. Filezilla works great and picks up when I am ftping from another machine. I can securely access Linux via putty from the windows machine however the I use the get command to get something from the Linux machine it goes to the directory on the Linux machine when I want the file to end up on the Windows machine. I am sure it is a small problem. I know to open two terminals on the Linux machine. one for ssh, the other for sftp. I cant connect to the Windows machine via ssh from Linux. I have disabled both Windows firewall as well as Nortons. The only thing I can think of is either ssh is not compatible (Linux to Windows) or there is something up with my router.

However, I'm using Openssh, WinSCP and not filezilla.

Maybe it's your brew?

One thing to try is to ssh to 127.0.0.1 on the Windows machine. You can then verify you setup the box proper. This way no router is involved.

Bob

I have heard and used putty but is it a Server. The Windows machine needs to be running a SSH Server not just the putty client. "Connection Refused" usually means the service is not running. Depending on your Firewall setup you would either get no reply or a can not connect message if it was a Firewall. Make sure the Windows SSH Server is running. What SSH Server are you running on the Windows machine?

HTH
-Bryan

I have putty and filezilla thats it. If I am supposed to have a ssh server what one would you recommend? I use putty to ssh from windows. I thought it would pop up or kick in when another host would attempt to ssh into windows however this seems not to work...

Look up OPENSSH on google.com A server component is ready for you to use.

Bob

Bob,

Hey thanks for the help I will get back to you. I am going to look around for the server component for windows.

Bob,

Hey thanks it took a while to find it actually as the main contributers seemed to have gotten tired of dealing with people like myself. I have installed the server on both Windows machines. I am now able to use ssh gary@computername at the command line. I am wondering if I am to be using ssh as I would with Linux:

You start a terminal and ssh a server then
open another terminal to scp or sftp the server

I am just wondering if I am actually in a secure tunnel when I am using sftp. For some reason I am not able to use scp. I get:

file or directory does not exist.

I am a student at ITT and not experienced. I do however have a home network with Server 2003 (AD DHCP DNS), XP, 98, Linux. All of which can communicate securely as long as I stick with using samba and not ftp. Thanks for any input.

The tired of dealing with issue occurs because many want support but fail to realize that after a few hundred then that is over for the author. It's also clear that you missed some initial clues that were provided in this discussion so that leads me to ask that you apply yourself and use the documentation as well as google.com

If WinSCP fails, then you research why as well as never write "it doesn't work" as that is sorely short of any usuable details to dissect why it didn't.

Bob

Bob,

Look I have done an awfull lot of googling and I have open ssh running fairly well. I am just wondering where I am failing when trying to use scp. I can sftp. As a student I rely on the brilliant minds from a few of the discussion forums that I attend and make good use of them. As far as the clues you gave me such as look up ssh on google I had allready done that. There are very few authors hosting ssh anymore hence the reason I am at this forum.

I dont have a terminal such as the one that Linux offers. I use the cmd line in Windows. I know that my books show to use to terminals one for ssh and the other for either scp or sftp. I have been trying this method with the cmd line in Windows.