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| - | What does particular error code mean is explained on the line above, i.e. "General failure" here. Particularly for "General failure", the SFTP server should provide you more details, that you will see next to "Error message from server". Unfortunatelly, SFTP server shipped with OpenSSH does not. That is, why you see there just "Failure" (very useful). | + | What does particular error code mean is explained on the line above, i.e. "General failure" here. Particularly for "General failure", the SFTP server should provide you more details, that you will see next to "Error message from server". Unfortunately, SFTP server shipped with OpenSSH does not. That is, why you see there just "Failure" (very useful). |
| Some situations when OpenSSH server issues this useless error message: | Some situations when OpenSSH server issues this useless error message: | ||
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| There are other possible sources of the message in addition to the profile script - some SSH servers print messages if they are unable to start the SFTP server, or encounter a fatal error. You should contact your server administrator. | There are other possible sources of the message in addition to the profile script - some SSH servers print messages if they are unable to start the SFTP server, or encounter a fatal error. You should contact your server administrator. | ||
| - | Another possibility is that the server is configured to only allow the SCP protocol and not the SFTP protocol, in such a way that SCP fallback mechnism of WinSCP does not work. The solution is to choose SCP protocol on the [[ui_login_session|login dialog]]. | + | Another possibility is that the server is configured to only allow the SCP protocol and not the SFTP protocol, in such a way that SCP fallback mechanism of WinSCP does not work. The solution is to choose SCP protocol on the [[ui_login_session|login dialog]]. |
| ===== [[return_code_127]] Command failed with return code 127 (or 255) ===== | ===== [[return_code_127]] Command failed with return code 127 (or 255) ===== | ||
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| ===== Other References ===== | ===== Other References ===== | ||
| - | SSH code of WinSCP is based on PuTTY. So if you are getting some error message while using [[protocol|SCP or SFTP protocols]] (particularly while connecting), you may check also the [[&url(puttydoc)/Chapter10.html|common error messages]] in PuTTY documentation. | + | SSH code of WinSCP is based on PuTTY. So if you are getting some error message while using [[protocol|SFTP or SCP protocols]] (particularly while connecting), you may check also the [[&url(puttydoc)/Chapter10.html|common error messages]] in PuTTY documentation. |