Copy file from Windows to Linux via scp (from Linux) [closed]

Question

I'm currently using scp to copy files between Linux systems.

scp username@hostname:/tmp/test.file .

Which copies my file from the remote server to the local machine.

What I would like to do is use the same scp command from my local Linux machine but copy a file from a Windows destination instead. How can this be accomplished?

Answer 1

You can use commands available with winscp to do this on the command line.

winscp command line

This syntax is pretty close to the Linux scp command - but with Window-ish flags.

You can find the winscp.exe executable at this path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\winscp.exe

EDIT 01:

And if you want to use scp on the Linux machine to copy from the Windows machine, you will need to run a ssh server on the Windows box.

FreeSSHd

OpenSSH

EDIT 02:

If you cannot install a ssh server on the Windows machine, you can mount an exported directory from Windows onto Linux using the samba fs mount.

samba fs mount

Answer 2

Finally found a solution

Downloaded pscp and used commandline option and then scheduled a job

c:\pscp.exe -q -batch -l mramkumar -pw xxxxx "c:\alm_testlink.png" mgr.sjc:/home/mramkumar 

Created a as bat file and scheduled as a job, This will keep pushing all the files in the folder to my linux server without prompting any password