Putty download file to local windows

If you want to try another ftp software, give a shot to WinSCP. If you want to send files from your unix server to your desktop, then you can use Winscp. It is an application in windows. Install it, open the app, enter the IP,username,password of your unix server and you can easliy transfer files between your unix server amd your desktop.

Then add a space and the location to which you want to copy the file. The default port that our containers use is Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Improve this answer. Zertrin Zertrin 3 3 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. It closes automatically? How am I supposed to use it or does it install itself somewhere?

Hi hhh, pscp is a command-line tool as specified in the documentation available on the official website : the. Seriously, no way to get scp or pscp to Cygwin or something else under one emulation? I would like to get pscp to work in Cygwin and CMD automatically, people are really supposed to create env vars or how to do it in W? Feels too hxckish to me You didn't say you had Cygwin installed! And i didn't mentionned it because I think it's even more "hxckish" as you say if your intention was only to transfer a file.

In this case you can install scp under Cygwin if not already done re-run setup. A quick search cygwin scp with my favorite search engine enable me to find that the ssh and scp commands are provided with the openssh package of the Cygwin setup : question-defense. Show 4 more comments. You can then do some like this scenario.

When I click pscp, it closes?! You might consider installing the tofrodos package to enable you to use the fromdos and todos commands on your Linux system to adjust the files you are moving between platforms. Sharing folders is an entirely different operation. You end up mounting a Windows directory on your Linux system or a Linux directory on your Windows box so that both systems can use the same set of files rather than copying the files from one system to the other.

One of the best tools for this is Samba, which emulates Windows protocols and runs on the Linux system. Once Samba is installed, you will be able to mount a Linux folder on Windows or a Windows folder on Linux.

This is, of course, very different than copying files as described earlier in this post. Instead, each of the two systems involved will have access to the same files at the same time. More tips on choosing the right tool for sharing files between Linux and Windows systems are available here. When I try downloading a file from my server onto my computer, it actually downloads the file onto the server.

Note I am already SSH'd into my server before typing this command. This creates a folder called Desktop in my server, instead of copying the files onto my local desktop.

While you still need to run a compatible file transfer client pscp or psftp , no new login is required, it automatically if enabled makes use of an existing PuTTY session. Even without connection-sharing, you can still use the psftp or pscp from Windows command line.

Note that the scp is OpenSSH program. Then you're not typing out characters every time you want to pull something, just drag and drop. Should be something like C:UsersyouDesktop. If your server have a http service you can compress your directory and download the compressed file.

If you don't have direct access to the server ip, do a ssh tunnel throught putty, and forward the 80 port in some local port, and you can download the file.