Hi,

I am fairly new to Unix. My school computers have only UNIX installed on them, and I wish to use them to do some parallel computing. To do so, I need to transfer the files from my Windows computer to my Unix account on a different computer.

I am using the SSH login with the Putty client. I can login and access my account no problem. However, I am having issues transferring the files using the scp command. Specifically, I am using
scp E:\PTF.fsp duchesne@nunatak1:global/home/FDTD/PT.fsp

but I recieve the error:
E: Name or service not known

It seems that the "E:" call is not correct, but how else can I specify the location of my file in windows? I have tried putting quotation marks around the file name, i.e. "E:\PTF.fsp", but to no avail. Also, if I simply remove the "E:", i.e.:

scp PTF.fsp duchesne@nunatak1:~/FDTD/PT.fsp
Password:
PTF.fsp: No such file or directory

so the scp command does work, but cannot find the file.

Can anyone help with this (most likely) trivial matter?

Thank you,

David