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Not able to copy dir from other server

 
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Hi,
I am trying to copy a dir and its contents using SCP command


but i am getting the following response:

Could not chdir to home directory /home/myName/: No such directory or file
could not create directory '/home/myName/.ssh'



Any suggestion?
 
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SSH and SCP require a place to store the SSH security keys used by the account under which the SCP is occurring. Normally, that's under $HOME/.ssh. You can probably override that with an scp command line option.
 
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