scp wont create a directory?

[daviddoria]

I have a folder on my desktop called test. I want to copy it to MYSERVER
So I do:
scp -r /home/dave/Desktop/test dave@MYSERVER:/home/dave/

But I get:
scp: /home/dave//test: Not a directory

Whats up with that?

Dave

[daviddoria]

anyone know how to do this?

[pete_1967]

Try creating temporary directory in your home directory on the server and scp the desktop dir in there.
(It's a permission issue, your ~/ needs to be 0755 for you to be able to scp directories directly in it)

[ADD]
I played about a bit and finally managed to re-create your problem. Default user dir had 0700 permissions which prevented recursive SCP of directories to it. I did global permission change to 0755 (for the user directory) and scp'd dir no problems. Reverted premissions back 0700 (recursively) and started new scp session with new dir transfer and had no problems.
I've never come accross this before so am not quite sure what is real reason for it.
[/ADD]

[daviddoria]

hmmm
i sshed and did
cd /home
chmod 0755 dave

then i tried to scp the folder again and i still get the same

[dave@jec6110h ~]$ scp -r Desktop/test/ MYIP:/home/dave
dave@daviddoria.homeip.net's password: 
scp: /home/dave/test: Not a directory

I also even tried chmod -r 0755 /home/dave with no luck

any more thoughts?

[pete_1967]

Originally Posted by daviddoria

I also even tried chmod -r 0755 /home/dave with no luck

Recursive switch for chmod is capital 'R' (chmod -R 0755 [as root])
That worked for me when I tested with freshly created account. Couldn't find any other (any at all) solutions anywhere when I was searching.

[daviddoria]

yea sorry, i used capital R when i did it, just not when i posted!

here is the verbose output of the scp:

debug1: Sending command: scp -v -r -t /home/dave
Entering directory: D0775 0 test
Sink: D0775 0 test
scp: /home/dave/test: Not a directory

Does that mean anything to you?

[daviddoria]

is it not possible to do this?