freeSSHD cannot be accessed by scp

Question

I am running freeSSHD on Windows A, and need to transfer file with it by scp. The Windows running freesshd can be connected via ssh client. but neither WinSCP on Windows nor scp on Linux cannot connect to the Windows with freeSSHD. The errors are:

on Linux:

test@workstation:~$ scp -r /home/test/scptest test@192.168.91.238:/C:\Users\dejavu\Desktop
test@192.168.91.238's password: 
exec request failed on channel 0
lost connection

on windows:

'scp' protocol is selected to transfer file and the port is default 22. The error is simply host is not communicating for more than 15 seconds. still waiting...

Answer 1

scp, as many other things, is two-side protocol. It requires scp to be present on both client and server. When you issue copy command, ssh connects to given server and spawns scp process, which your local scp then communicates with. In your case, there is no scp on server, so no communication possible.

rsync behaves in exactly the same way.

I guess in your case you could try sftp.