I assume that Thunar is some sort of GUI file manager like application - it is mentioned on this list often, but I am oblivious to these things and their exotic/gimpy sounding names meaning nothing remotely descriptive.
Anyway, if I am right and you are in fact browsing/playing/editing files through a GUI file manager - either displayed remotely or browsing through the GUI manged ssh setup. Both KDE and GNOME can connect and browse remote files via ssh. ===> So if you try to open/play/edit file through another GUI apllication - this it will not work. You will need to copy the file locally and then play/open/edit that local copy. ===> The reason is simple - what you see in one gui is not available in the other GUI application. To solve this principle limitation - you need to somehow mount the remote storage on your local host or open the file in remote application - in which case you will not be able to hear the sound without doing extra work. To mount remote filesystem on your machine you will most likely need to use nfs or samba or sshfs. Given the fact that you have ssh working, sshfs should be trivial to setup even on slackware. If you are interested in using sshfs, you will need: * instal/enable fuse * install sshfs Mount remote file system like this: mkdir remoteMountDir sshfs remoteUser@remoteHost:/ ~/remoteMountDir # This will mount remote / into ~/remoteMountDir # Note: using full paths or ~ hor the mount directory is must To unmount it: fusermount -u ~/remoteMountDir This way, you should be able to access remote files as if they would be local. Limited by your network connection of course. By default, there maybe a timeout which disconnect sshfs mount after some inactivity period. Hope it helps, Tomas On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 18:17 -0800, Galen Seitz wrote: > On 2/20/19 5:57 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > On Slackware I have: > > > > rsteff@ENU-2:~/.ssh$ cat config > > #rsteff's ssh config file > > # > > ForwardX11Trusted yes > > rsteff@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. > > Anyway, perhaps you can accomplish what you want this way: > > <https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-use-linux-file-manager-t > o-connect-to-an-sftp-server/> > > Since you have ssh working, sftp should also work for you. > > > galen _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug