Can't SEE any files in DB using ssh

[Walkman]

Hello,

I am new to using ssh, but I'm managing ok. I'm using the ssh client, and the problem I'm having is that I can navigate to my mysql folder and I can see the database folders, but when I click on the folders, they're blank. But when I open up the phpmyadmin I can see the databases and the tables that reside in them.

I'm trying to upload my database tables to my database, and it's been such a problem for about a week now.

Using ssh my path to the mysql is /var/lib/mysql

Can someone kindly help me out?
Are the tables & files invisible using ssh?


Thanks for your valued time

[nobaloney]

I don't follow your post.

When using ssh you're using a shell window. I have no idea how you'd click on anything in a shell window.

So I don't even know how to start understanding your post.

:(

Jeff

[Walkman]

I got the problem solved.

Using the ssh file transfer client I was logging in under the user "admin" and I should have been logging in under the user "root".

Should a person say which of the programs under the ssh they are using? An example is "client terminal" and the "file transfer".

Is it important that I use the terminal and not the file transfer client?

Thanks.

[nobaloney]

To me, ssh means "Secure Shell", and means you get a secure connection to your user shell.

And scp means "Secure Copy"; it uses the ssh protocol to copy files.

The only scp client I've ever used under Windows is WinSCP2. I'm sure there are others.

But to me ssh means a shell.

Jeff