[wellylug] scp from windows to linux / Address family not supported

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Mon Mar 15 11:32:37 NZDT 2004


You could try pscp (part of the popular Putty suite) and see if you get
the same issue.

I'm not sure why, but I've *always* found scp from a Windows box to a *nix
box to be horrendously slow... anybody know why?

Cheers,
David.


On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, E.Chalaron wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I have a small issue here, but do not really understand where the trouble is.
> I have a local lan on 192.etc....
> One machine(4) is a dual one, and I want to be able to connect from windows
> to machine6.
> Samba is installed on 6 and I can see it in windows neighbour.. (though I can
> not browse or write onto it, maybe config).
>
> Now, this machine(4) is supposed to go home soon or later and I want to use
> Winscp to copy files from machine4 to machine6.
>
> Winscp install went ok, though the winscp soft is now telling me :
> "Network error. Address family not supported by protocal family"
>
> Funny thing is If I ping machine6 from windows I can see it.
> So is it a real network issue or a winscp issue ?
> Should I stop samba ? It seems to be a bit redundant with scp ?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Edouard




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