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yellow1912
PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:27 am 
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I can use putty just fine, but when I try to use winscp to connect to my server, the program stops at "Starting the session" and just hangs there forever. I tried to login other servers just fine.

Any suggestion is really appreciated since Im a linux newbie.

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anderiv
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...shooting in the dark...

Perhaps make sure you have winscp set to use *scp* not *sftp*. I believe it defaults to sftp.
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yellow1912
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:59 pm 
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Thank you for the suggestion. It was set to sftp indeed, and I changed to scp just now, still stuck though. This is weird, winscp bug?
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mwalling
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can any other scp clients connect to your server? I use WinSCP to upload to my linode with out problems from my windows computers...
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yellow1912
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Do you recommend any scp client other than WinSCP for windows? Im using WinSCP to access other severs just fine tho.
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anderiv
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The same folks that make PuTTY distribute a command-line scp client. You could try that...or just install Cygwin. Then you'll get a decent shell to work in as well.

-erik
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yellow1912
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I got the problem sorted out, thanks all.
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yellow1912
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PS: I got a virus alert visiting this thread (from Avast)

http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13987\unp179700710
VBS:Malware-gen

Weird
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Same, virus alert here from avast aswell.
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Looks like Avast released a bad virus def:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=32895.0

Update your definitions and it *should* go away...
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