Raspberry Pi headless question

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Hi Simon & Simbun,

Thank you for the replies, I have now realised that the rpi which is running Raspbian Lite auto mounts the Usb drive, so thanks for that.

Unfortunately I have not got that far yet because I cannot seem to copy the MinimServer2 archive file to the pi home folder. I am using Windows 10 Powershell to access using 'ssh' and all Pi commands work as expected.

If I try to use SCP (secure copy) I get a request for the Pi password, which no matter how many times I type it will not work (bear in mind I am already logged in with this password), on other occasions I get the following error message cp: cannot stat 'MinimServer-2.0.16-linux-armhf.tar.gz': No such file or directory. Just for clarity I definately have this file in my downloads folder and on the desktop. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Many thanks for your help.