On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 13:47 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:06:25 -0800 > Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo: > > >I'm pretty sure Gigolo came preinstalled with Xubuntu 18. It's there > >in Xubuntu 20, also. You still need to have SSH client and SSH server > >installed. There are one or two configuration things, but once they > >are done, Gigolo works pretty much out of the box. The Help > About > >for the version I have says > > I had never used Gigolo before, but it was installed, so I launched it. > All it saw were things that were mounted, i.e., /, /home, another > internal drive, and the Synology. I clicked on the Network button hoping > that it would see the other computer, but it still saw nothing. And > openssh is also installed, both client and server. > > But before giving up I poked at other things, and finally had success > with Actions > Connect, which popped up a window allowing me to put in > the IP address of the other computer, and log in to it. I now have a > file manager window with everything on the other computer. > > Problem solved. Thanks for the tip! > _ >
Before you finish you victory lap here - try to open some larg-ish file in the file manager. You will notice: a) the file is first downloaded to some temporary file then opened as local. If you edit and save the edits - it will be in the tmp file, not the original b) the file will not open at all because the path to it, in the file browser, does not represent the file path outside the file manager. There is no good way around mounting remote file systems through some gui magic at this point in time. Hope that helps, Tomas > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
