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Jiatong Jiang
Jiatong Jiang

Reputation: 13

"No such file or directory" error when using "gcloud compute scp" command in SSH window to upload file to vm instance

I keep getting the error as described when using the following command in an SSH window (opened after hitting the "SSH" button on my instance "test-gpu"): 

jiatongjiangsherry97@test-gpu:~$ gcloud compute scp 
/C:/Users/LENOVO/Downloads/cudnn-9.0-linux-x64-v7.3.1.20.tgz 
jiatongjiangsherry97@test-gpu:~/

After I answered "Y" to the following question:

Did you mean zone [us-west1-b] for instance: [test-gpu] (Y/n)?  Y

It shows:

/C:/Users/LENOVO/Downloads/cudnn-9.0-linux-x64-v7.3.1.20.tgz: No such file 
or directory
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.scp) [/usr/bin/scp] exited with return code [1].

But I checked several times that this is the exact directory and file name.

On a side note: I also tried typing all these in a cloud shell window instead of the SSH. And then it returned "Insufficient permission", although I have logged in to my service account. (If this piece of info helps.)

Anyone has any idea why it says "No such file or directory"?

Thanks in advance.

Jiatong

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6910

Answers (2)

George
George

Reputation: 1516

You may consider transferring files using WinSCP. All needed detail is found in the "Transferring files using WinSCP on Windows workstations" sub-chapter of the "Transferring Files to Instances" online document.

Upvotes: 2

Dan Cornilescu
Dan Cornilescu

Reputation: 39824

Since you're trying to copy C:/Users/LENOVO/Downloads/cudnn-9.0-linux-x64-v7.3.1.20.tgz which is a file on your local machine then you need to run the gcloud compute scp on your local machine.

Running the command in the window open by the SSH instance button runs it on your compute instance and running it in the cloud shell runs it on the cloud shell instance. Neither of those instances has access to your local machine - hence the No such file or directory error.

Note that you'll probably need to adjust the command to the local machine OS (apparently Windows) since referencing files is done differently.

Upvotes: 2

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