On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 15:48, David L Norris wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 00:10 +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into setting up those. I was > > wondering whether there might be an even simpler solution -- mounting an > > external drive via ssh for example (sshd is running on both machines, > > and wouldn't require any additional setup at all). > > SSH should work great but you'd need a real user account on her machine. > In Nautilus, don't use ssh:// as it won't prompt for a password and > you'll be left with cryptic error messages. I use Nautilus with SFTP to > transfer files to/from my laptop, web server, etc. Ah, now that really is interesting. One of the things that I've been confused about is whether sftp needs to connect to a machine that has an ftp server running on it, or whether all that needs to be running on the machine you're connecting to is sshd. > Open "Computer" on your GNOME desktop then open "File" menu -> "Connect > to Server" item. Now you can enter a "Location" like > sftp://user@xxxxxxxxxxxx and give it a descriptive "Link Name." Excellent. I've used this method to connect to other machines before, but the machines in question always had *both* an ftp server and an ssh server running on them. I know sftp is part of ssh, but I've never been clear on whether all it requires at the other end is an ssh server, an ftp server, or both. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================
