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

2021-01-17 Thread Ben Koenig
Yes there is. Been a long time since I actually did this so I'd have to fiddle it for a bit but here's the basic concept. You can create a desktop shortcut that opens your filemanager to the specified location. When you go through the whole Actions > Connect process it probably adds an icon

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

2021-01-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 10:47:17 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >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

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

2021-01-09 Thread TomasK
Good to hear that it is working for you - that is different experience then I had when setting this up for others maybe year/two-is ago. I will have to try and see how that actually works. Thanks for the feedback, Tomas On Sat, 2021-01-09 at 14:49 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan

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

2021-01-09 Thread Dick Steffens
On 1/9/21 10:47 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:06:25 -0800 Dick Steffens 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,

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

2021-01-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:49:01 -0500 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >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

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

2021-01-09 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 13:47 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:06:25 -0800 > Dick Steffens 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

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

2021-01-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:06:25 -0800 Dick Steffens 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