[PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer

[David Bridges]

As long as you have ssh access between the computers a decent file
manager should work nicely for this task.  I know that NFS was
mentioned in the original post but I like simple solutions.

In the file manage on Gnome I can set a location I want to access using
a syntax along the lines of

sftp://kdb16@lfs17/home/kdb16

I use ssh key authentication between my computers and have quite a few
bookmarks set up to automatically browse many computers both local and
remote.

I'm assuming that whatever file manager you use would have this
functionality in 2021 but ymmv

--
David

-----Original Message-----
From: John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
Reply-To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug at pdxlinux.org>
To: plug at pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] GUI app to access files on another Linux computer
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 22:39:29 -0800

On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 23:38:41 -0600
Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:

> Try searching sshfs gui. That is probably sort of close to what you
> are
> looking for.

I tried it. It was already installed. I tried sshfs and got
'need to specify destination,' so I specified the ip address of the
other computer, which gave me 'address must be in brackets' (why?) so i
added the brackets, and the error message was just repeated.

I'm not impressed with sshfs.
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