linux nerds: true or false: if I'm ssh'd into a linux machine from a windows machine and I want to use scp to move a file from linux -> windows, I should be able to, whether or not I'm running an ssh server on my windows machine?

@rpardee Your scp client on your windows box should be able to copy independent of any ssh server you are running. If you are running a cygwin variant on your Windows box, this shouldn't be a problem at all. PuTTY can be a little trickier, but I don't recall ever having problems with scp to or from linux.

@sirgeefive hmm--the scp I'm invoking is on the linux machine tho. I'm wanting to push the file from linux -> win.

If I open a new command prompt, I can use windows' scp client to pull from linux into windows. But then I have to enter passwords & specify gnarly paths & whatnot. My feeling is I've already got an authenticated session going--why can't I just use that?

(I'm using the openssh install that comes standard w/windows these days, if that's important.)

@rpardee I mean personally, I would flip the transaction and pull from the linux with the windows client. Having said that:

ssh user@remote_host -t "scp local_file remote_user@remote_host:/remote/path"

You can execute a remote command over the existing ssh session as above by using the -t flag. So, you could use your existing session to run scp.