cannot trasnfer files from host to virtual machine using scp

Question

This refers to my previous question ..

How to SSH to s virtual machine from s Linux host?

i could login but when i trasnfer files using scp it does not work.

scp -p 2222 temp.sql  user@localhost:temp
user@localhost's password: 

i tried filezilla also but it does not work.

Permission denied, please try again.

While i am using the same username and password. May i know how can i fix this pblm.

Answer 1

Try on port 2222:

scp -P 2222 temp.sql  user@localhost:temp