scp - connection refused

[Matthew Flaschen]

Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi List;
> 
> I have 2 laptops both running Kubuntu Dapper. I tried to scp a file from one 
> laptop to the pother tonite via:
> 
> "scp 192.168.1.4:/home/user1/file1.doc ."
> 
> but I get this:
> ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.4 port 22: Connection refused
> lost connection
> 
> The same result if I try to scp the other way...
> 
> How can I enable/allow scp?

I believe you simply have to install the ssh daemon on the one you want
to download files from (probably both in your case).

sudo apt-get install ssh

Matt Flaschen