[ubuntu-uk] OpenSSH Problems

[Byte Soup]

On 21 August 2013 17:05, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 21 August 2013 15:43, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On 21 August 2013 15:36, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > I am on the lookout for a bit of advice on using SSH/SFTP to transfer
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>> > files between devices on my home network.
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>> Have a look at rsync, it is generally much quicker than ftp.
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> Remember that rsync uses ssh as its transport and if there are issues
> rsync might still be affected by them. A common issue with ssh is having
> name lookups enabled when DNS isn't available so adding 'UseDNS no' to
> /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config should help there. If there
> are genuine issues with connectivity then adding 'ServerAliveInterval 60'
> may help.
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You could try using ssh/sftp with the "-v" for verbose or "-vv" for even
more verbose messages. This might help you getting some debug information
(you'll have to use the terminal) which might help you find what's going
on, example command:

sftp -v user at 192.168.0.10


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