cannot create Regular file while copying from one system to another system

Question

I tried to copy a file from one linux server to another Linux server using the below command

scp sampleweb.rar [email protected] /

It gave me this error under putty console .

cp: cannot create regular file `/sampleweb.rar': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/[email protected]': Permission denied

Answer 1

Assuming you are trying to write to the / directory on the remote machine, it looks like you are missing a colon:

scp sampleweb.rar [email protected]:/

Without the colon, scp asssumes this is a local copy, and falls back to cp on the local machine, as indicated by your error messages.