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  Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk =? "ishish" <ishish@1:249/999.remove-cdt-this> - 2014-12-09 11:32 -0500
    Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk c: "Luuk" <luuk@1:249/999.remove-cdt-this> - 2014-12-09 11:32 -0500
      Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk c: "Chris Angelico" <chris.angelico@1:249/999.remove-cdt-this> - 2014-12-09 11:32 -0500
      Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk c: "Thomas Rachel" <thomas.rachel@1:249/999.remove-cdt-this> - 2014-12-09 11:32 -0500
      Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk c: "Tim Chase" <tim.chase@1:249/999.remove-cdt-this> - 2014-12-09 11:32 -0500

#82209 — Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk =?

>     with open(localpath, 'wb') as fl:
> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:'

I remember gloomily (haven't used windows since ages) that newer
Windows versions don't like users to write directly to C:. Have you
tried to save the file to your Documents folder?

Regards,
Alba

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#82210 — Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk c:

  To: ishish
On 8-12-2014 18:37, ishish wrote:
>>     with open(localpath, 'wb') as fl:
>> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:'
>
> I remember gloomily (haven't used windows since ages) that newer Windows
> versions don't like users to write directly to C:. Have you tried to
> save the file to your Documents folder?
>
> Regards,
> Alba

no, it's the ssh-server denying a log on from 'root'

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#82211 — Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk c:

  To: Luuk
Copy: python-list@python.org (python-list@python.org)

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Luuk <luuk34@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8-12-2014 18:37, ishish wrote:
>>>
>>>     with open(localpath, 'wb') as fl:
>>> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:'
>>
>>
>> I remember gloomily (haven't used windows since ages) that newer Windows
>> versions don't like users to write directly to C:. Have you tried to
>> save the file to your Documents folder?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alba
>
>
> no, it's the ssh-server denying a log on from 'root'

It looks to me more like an issue with path naming. Try 'c:/' instead
of 'c:', or use '/' to mean the root directory of the current drive.
Alternatively, do a web search for the problem and the symptoms, as
you're unlikely to be the first person to have run into this.

ChrisA

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#82218 — Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk c:

Am 08.12.2014 19:11 schrieb Luuk:

> no, it's the ssh-server denying a log on from 'root'

You are repating yourself.

How could possibly

     with open(localpath, 'wb') as fl:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:'

be a problem with the SSH server?

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#82219 — Re: why can't download file from linux server into local window disk c:

  To: Luuk
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On 2014-12-08 19:11, Luuk wrote:
> On 8-12-2014 18:37, ishish wrote:
> >>     with open(localpath, 'wb') as fl:
> >> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:'
> >
> > I remember gloomily (haven't used windows since ages) that newer
> > Windows versions don't like users to write directly to C:. Have
> > you tried to save the file to your Documents folder?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alba
>
> no, it's the ssh-server denying a log on from 'root'

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's pretty clearly not the
issue.  The exception states that the problem is one of permissions
on the C:

  PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:'

which ishish clearly identified as a "Windows doesn't let you do that
any more" issue.  Additionally, I don't know off the top of my if the
Paramiko libraries expect a file-name, or if they expect a directory
into which the file gets put based on the server-side name.

The best solution is to do as ishish proposed: write the file to some
other appropriate (i.e., writable) location.  A simple fix might be

  import os
  # ...
  localpath = os.path.expanduser('~')

or

  localpath = os.path.join(
    os.path.expanduser('~'),
    'passwd.txt',
    )

A stop-gap solution might be to just run the program in a writable
directory:

  c:\> cd %TEMP%
  c:\...\TEMP> python myprog.py

A far worse solution would be to run the script as Administrator on
the Win32 box, which will grant permission to write in the root of C:

-tkc

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