Copying files from server to another server

[Farhad88]

Hi,

I'm trying to copy files from my current server to a new server. Both servers have SSH installed.

These are the commands I'm using. However I'm getting connection refused. I did a google search and found out that maybe the reason of this error could be due to the fact that my current server doesn't have SSH. However I use SSH often on my current server so I can say that it has SSH for sure.

OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to IP_OF_CURSERVER [IP_OF_CURSERVER] port 22.
debug1: connect to address IP_OF_CURSERVER port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host IP_OF_CURSERVER port 22: Connection refused

Anyone knows what I need to do to solve this problem?

Thanks!

[daark.child]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

Are the firewalls on both machines configured to allow ssh connections?

[reed9]

Have you opened up sshd in your /etc/hosts.allow file?

Basic usage*

# let everyone connect to you
sshd: ALL

# OR you can restrict it to a certain ip
sshd: 192.168.0.1

# OR restrict for an IP range
sshd: 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0

# OR restrict for an IP match
sshd: 192.168.1.

*From Arch Wiki

[Farhad88]

Thanks for your help.

I found out the problem.

The server I wanted to copy the files from has a different port number and I had to specify that port number with -P

It works perfect now