SSH between computers on LAN

[Brian]

On Fri 23 Jan 2009 at 15:03:44 -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> 
>     I have sshd on this Hardy on my big computer and it works fine when 
> I ssh to it from my laptop with Intrepid. It goes through 2 routers and 
> still works fine. But I can't get it to transfer files between the 2 
> computers.

Apologies for not answering your question directly but an alternative to
play with is netcat. See here:

http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/11/06/netcat-a-couple-of-useful-examples/

I had to alter the nc commands slightly and use the -p option to specify
the port to use.