How to use WinSCP to access Linux host

[djarvie]

I have Windows 98 as the guest system, running on a Linux host. As a substitute for file sharing (which doesn't work on Windows 98), I've installed WinSCP. However, I can't manage to connect to my host system using WinSCP.

I've tried NAT, bridged and host-only networking in VirtualBox, with no success using WinSCP in any of them. With the latter two types of networking, the host IP address for the vboxnet0 adapter is 192.168.56.1, while the guest was 192.168.56.101. In WinSCP I entered 192.168.56.1 as the host name, and my Linux user name as the user name. I just get a "Network error. Connection timed out" message when I try to connect with WinSCP.

Any advice on how to get WinSCP to work?

[stefan.becker]

Why not use a Samba share instead of this? Much easier.

[djarvie]

As far as I can see, setting up Samba on Linux isn't particularly straightforward. SSH/SCP seem much simpler, if only I could get WinSCP to work.