title: Copying files with scp: connection timed out
body: <p>I am running a script on a remote machine and I would like to copy the output file on my pc, using scp.</p>
  
  <p>I am perfectly able to copy files from my pc to the remote one, but apparently I am not in doing the opposite:</p>
  
  <p>I have tried with both my hostname and ip adress, with :</p>
  
  <pre><code>scp star_101out.txt alessandra@ip_adress:/home/alessandra/Dropbox/tesi\ alle/Python
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I get this error: </p>
  
  <pre><code>                Connection timed out
  
                    lost connection
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>what should I do?</p>