Unable to connect to Linux git Repo from Windows machine

Question

So recently I've been trying to set up a Git server to manage personal projects and work. I created a bare Git repo on a spare laptop running Ubuntu and I installed Git Bash on my Windows machine. Right now I'm having some issues in actually being able to clone my Ubuntu git server to my Windows computer.

I used git remote add origin myserver@myserver-Dell-System:/home/myserver/CentralRepo.git but whenever I try to clone to my Windows machine, Git bash spits out this error:

ssh: Could not resolve hostname myserver@myserver-Dell-System: Name or service not known
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and repository exists.

I double checked my add to make sure the address of my Git server was correct and I assume Git bash for Windows comes with OpenSSH.

Does anyone know why this is happenning and how I can get my Windows machine to sucessfully clone from a server to itself? Thanks!

Answer 1

A valid ssh url would be

auser@myserver-Dell-System

You can check if you can resolve and connect to that server with

ssh -T auser@myserver-Dell-System

That supposes that you have generated a public/private ssh key pair, and added your public key to ~auser/.ssh/authorized_keys file first.
See " Adding SSH Keys to authorized_keys "