1.7.5: scp file transfer doesn't work anymore (message "error: ambiguous target")

Vokuhila-Oliba ka5427-536@online.de
Fri Nov 26 03:14:00 GMT 2010


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 24 22:12, Vokuhila-Oliba wrote:
>    
>> I've  been using the scp program to copy files from various Unix
>> systems (linux, solaris, AIX) to our Windows-XP-SP3-64bit machine.
>>
>> example (from Linux-Debian-Lenny with IP 192.168.20.64):
>>
>>      scp logfile.txt  c.user@192.168.20.62:
>>
>> That worked perfectly well for more than one year.
>>
>> But since a few months I am always receiving the following error message
>>
>> regtest@srv-deb-lenny:~$ scp logfile.txt  192.168.20.62:
>>
>>     scp: ambiguous target
>>      
> Does http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#2.9 help?
>
>
> Corinna
>
>    
Hi Corinna,

I tried your diagnosis suggestion (http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#2.9). 
But that doesn't seem to be the cause - no output from the /usr/bin/true 
command.

Note: I also tried sftp and rsync - and both worked for me.

- Hans

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