[Trisquel-users] Re : alternatives to samba

[lcerf]

You can install SSH clients (probably already installed) and servers on all  
computers.  The hardest part is configuring the router so that every computer  
always is given the same IP address.  If we are talking about computers on  
different networks, the router must also be configured to transmit incoming  
connections to the correct computer (SSH's default port is 22 but you can use  
a different port; you have to do so to access different computers in a  
network that is not the one you are in).  You can finally add bookmarks in  
the file managers to connect to your home folders on each of the remote  
computers.

In GNOME's file manager, click on the gear button, then on "Connect to  
server.." and specify "sftp://"; followed by the IP address (the private  
address of the computer inside the same network, the public address of the  
router if in another network), optionally followed by the path to the folder.  
 The port, if not 22, has to be specified at the end, after ":".