Greetings, carolus! >> You didn't supplied a username to the remote host at all. >> Quite predictable, you got a name mismatch...
> Thanks. That was the clue. The following all work, connecting to my > cygwin home directory on the server: > ssh dell03 > sftp dell03 > lftp sftp://dell03 > but curl requires a more explicit syntax: curl sftp://cdr@dell03 > I had tried curl -u cdr, but that asks for a password. Since I want to > use curl in a script, I did not want to have to enter a password. > I did not think of trying a different syntax until reading your suggestion. Many tools take your $USER as login name to remote host by default. Which is a rather wild guess, in general, but often works... locally. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 10.11.2011, <05:06> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
