WinSCP Permission denied Error code 3 Error message from server Permission denied

Question

I am using WinSCP and keep on experiencing this error every time I try to replace overwrite a file  I have been able to transfer overwrite a file before with out any problem but not anymore   The exact error message      Cannot create remote file  var lib tomcat6 webapps      myfilename filepart     Permission denied    Error code  3   Error message from server  Permission denied   I have tried changing the ownership which I was successful at because when I refreshed  from tomcat6  it is now under my login name  But I am still denied  This is giving me a very hard time testing our reports as I just need to see if it s already working i n the deployed app   I also tried tweaking some of the  options in the WinSCP preferences such as Drag  amp  Drop and Endurance but nothing made any difference   I reinstalled PuTTY and WinSCP  but nothing changed   UPDATE  I am able to replace my file by coming out 1 notch from the file path  ex  var lib myfolder myproject web-inf report  back 1 notch to var lib myfolder myproject web-inf    then type   sudo chown myuser myuser report -R   but my reports will have errors  so I had to type sudo chown tomca6 tomcat6 report -R then the error will be cleared and I now can view my replaced file   This is very inconvenient as I have to do this every time  Is there anything I can do to fix this  thanks

User · Answer

You possibly do not have create permissions to the folder. So WinSCP fails to create a temporary file for the transfer.

You have two options:

Grant write permissions to the folder to the user or group you log in with (myuser), or change the ownership of the folder to the user, or
Disable a transfer to temporary file.

In Preferences, go to Transfer > Endurance page and in Enable transfer resume/transfer to temporary file name for select Disable:

[permission-denied] WinSCP: Permission denied. Error code: 3 Error message from server: Permission denied

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