[PLUG] Still trying to communicate between Slackware and Ubuntu

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Thu Feb 21 05:40:42 UTC 2019


On 2/20/19 6:17 PM, Galen Seitz wrote:
> On 2/20/19 5:57 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> On Slackware I have:
>>
>> rsteff at ENU-2:~/.ssh$ cat config
>> #rsteff's ssh config file
>> #
>> ForwardX11Trusted yes
>> rsteff at ENU-2:~/.ssh$
>>
>> On Ubuntu I have (in /etc/ssh/sshd_config);
>> X11Forwarding yes
>>
>> Typing on the Ubuntu machine I can run ssh -X and log in to the 
>> Slackware machine. I can run Thunar. I can navigate to a directory I 
>> want to copy a file from, and I can see the file. When I try to drag 
>> that file to the Ubuntu desktop I get this error message:
>
> It sounds as if you are running a file manager on a remote system, 
> displaying it locally, and then expecting to be able to drag files 
> between the local and remote system.  Perhaps that is possible, but I 
> would be a bit surprised if that is somehow supported.  No doubt 
> someone will pop up and tell me that I'm wrong.

I have used this technique between Ubuntu systems many times.

> Anyway, perhaps you can accomplish what you want this way:
>
> <https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-use-linux-file-manager-to-connect-to-an-sftp-server/> 
>
>
> Since you have ssh working, sftp should also work for you.

Works great! Thanks!

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens





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