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In my home local area network,Win10 is 192.168.28.242,debian is 192.168.28.252.SSH Server is installed on Win10 ,SSH service is on.I can connect Win10 from debian.

debian@MiWiFi-R4A-srv:~$ ssh [email protected]

Enter into driver F ,list all directories and files in the directory sample:

C:\Users\hello>f: F:\>cd sample F:\sample>dir Volume in drive F is New Volume Volume Serial Number is 3AB0-5214 Directory of F:\sample 15/08/2025 16:50 <DIR> . 15/08/2025 16:50 <DIR> .. 15/08/2025 16:04 <DIR> project 23/02/2025 19:17 208,641 sample.png 1 File(s) 208,641 bytes 3 Dir(s) 154,399,633,408 bytes free

I want to download all files and directories in the directory sample in Win10 remote 192.168.28.242 from 192.168.24.252,issue the command on 192.168.24.252(debian):

scp -r [email protected]:"f:/sample" /tmp/sample scp: realpath f:/sample/: No such file scp: download "f:/sample/": path canonicalization failed

Add asterisk ( * ) as Wildcard character in the command:

scp -r [email protected]:"f:/sample/*" /tmp/sample scp: realpath f:/sample/project/: No such file scp: download "f:/sample/project/": path canonicalization failed sample.png

Only file sample.png in the sample directory downloaded,all files and directories in project can't be downloaded. More try.
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How can download directory recursively with scp from remote Win10 to linux ?

Note that if i issue the command on 192.168.28.242(win10 cmd):

scp -r f:\sample [email protected]

No problem,it works fine!
To make this question more clearer in my environment:
Pushing from win10 to linux works fine (to issue command on win10 to push the directory recursively with scp to linux)

scp -r f:\sample [email protected]

Pulling from linux can't work.(to issue command on linux to pull the directory on win10 recursively with scp ),none of them can work:

scp -r [email protected]:"f:/sample" /tmp/sample scp -r [email protected]:"f:/sample/*" /tmp/sample scp -r [email protected]:'f:/sample' /tmp/sample scp -r [email protected]:'f:/sample/*' /tmp/sample scp -r [email protected]:"f:\sample" /tmp/sample scp -r [email protected]:"f:\\sample" /tmp/sample
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Works for me:

  • Windows 11 Pro (24H2) running its built-in ssh server
  • Debian "bookworm" on a Pi as the client

Command:

scp -r Me@WINDOWS:'e:/temporary/bin' /tmp/bin ls -l /tmp/bin | wc -l 53

My source directory contains files and one directory, also containing a number of files.

Notes:

  • It also works if I use /e:/temporary/bin as the source path.
  • It also works if I use scp -Or … to fallback to the older SCP protocol rather than SFTP.
  • This backslash variant also works: scp -Or Me@WINDOWS:'e:\temporary\bin' /tmp/bin.
  • This backslash variant does not work: scp -r Me@WINDOWSL:'e:\temporary\bin' /tmp/bin.

Question:

  • In Windows terminology, is your source path - or any part of it - a junction, shortcut, or maybe network share?
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  • Solved,add argument -O! Commented Aug 16 at 4:29

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