On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 19:14 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:47 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > > > >>List, > >> > >>It is easy to forward an ssh connection using the following command line > >>syntax: > >> > >>ssh -t gateway.com ssh internal.com > >> > >>Is there a way to use scp to copy a file through a gateway machine to an > >>internal server. > >> > >>Thanks, > >> > >>Greg Ennis > >> > >> > >> > > > >I'm not sure i quite understand the reason for "through a gateway > >machine"... > >Is it that the internal server cannot get to the internal.com itself? > > > >Either way... i believe the fact that scp can be used to copy from one > >remote location to another may be of some help. > >scp user host:source user host:destination > > > >You get prompted for two passwords and your set... > > > >Hope this helps... > > > >-- > >*Trevor "TeC" Christian* > > > >Trevor, > > > >Thanks for the suggestion... I surely did not make myself clear in what I was trying to do. I would like to copy a file from a remote machine through a gateway having the new file reside on an internal server. > > > > > OK... so you are connecting from the outside. > > Is there a port forward or tunneling option available or possible? > > >Your syntax worked beautifully to all remote copying of a file on the gateway to an internal server. > > > >To use your syntax here is what I would like to do, but have not been able to make it happen. > > > >scp /usr/local/bin/filename user@gateway user@internal:/usr/local/bin/filename > > > >The part that I obviously do not understand is the syntax for user@gateway. > > > > > > > Hmmmmm.... I'm currently unsure of how you could get that to work. > > One thing comes to mind, but i have nothing to test i on.... This > involved ssh-ing into the gateway and running the scp from there... > > :$ ssh gateway 'scp me@remote:/usr/local/bin/filename > user@internal:/user/local/bin/filename' > > As far as what you indicated you are trying to do, I'm keen on seeing > any other responses that may shed greater light on accomplishing this task. > > >Greg > > > > > > > > Trevor, Good idea, but I could not make it work I received the error : ssh: connect to address 10.0.0.147 port 22: No route to host 10.0.0.147 was the internal server. I had logged on to the gateway server and the syntax I used was : scp root@remoteserver:/usr/local/bin/doc/ssh_syntax root@internalserver:/usr/local/bin/doc/ssh_syntax I'd like to hear from others as well. Greg
