[SlimDevices: Unix] ssh/sharing via window manager?

2010-08-15 Thread Phil168
Does any one know how to access the touch via the nautilus window manager on ubuntu? I can ssh to my squeezebox touch via the command line using the command: ssh r...@[sb's ip number] and typing in the password, but it would be much more convenient to have access via nautilus (the window

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Squeezebox server can't see music folder

2010-08-15 Thread fkjensen
Yeah, it was the permission thing. However, now I got the no music library configured problem, but I'll start a new thread for that. -- fkjensen fkjensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39806

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ssh/sharing via window manager?

2010-08-15 Thread Mnyb
That would be sftp://r...@x.x.x.x/ And usually do this by choosing Places connect to server in ubuntu type ssh user etc etc as required. Thats said I don think Touch or Radio or controller supports sftp at all . samba could be used for the shared drive (usually your USB drive/stick). --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ssh/sharing via window manager?

2010-08-15 Thread Phil168
Thanks. Yes the main aim was to ease access the USB drive plugged in the touch---the lack of sftp support seems to be the problem. I will investigate samba, but for now I just remembered the scp -r option to recursivley copy whole directories much more easily using scp. -- Phil168

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ssh/sharing via window manager?

2010-08-15 Thread Mnyb
Phil168;569264 Wrote: Thanks. Yes the main aim was to ease access the USB drive plugged in the touch---the lack of sftp support seems to be the problem. I will investigate samba, but for now I just remembered the scp -r option to recursivley copy whole directories much more easily using scp.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ssh/sharing via window manager?

2010-08-15 Thread Phil168
Yes samba works perfectly: after hunting around for instructions (and the ones I found giving trouble), I just tried replacing ssh:// by smb:// and it works fine: open a folder, type control-l to see the location, then enter smb://[SB's ip number] and it works fine: I see the USB drive

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ssh/sharing via window manager?

2010-08-15 Thread Mark Miksis
Mnyb;569252 Wrote: Thats said I don think Touch or Radio or controller supports sftp at all . Edit: meaning no graphical file browsing only comand line shell, if you want to copy files from the Touch to you pc you have to use the scp command. What do you mean? I always thought that sftp

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ssh/sharing via window manager?

2010-08-15 Thread Mnyb
Mark Miksis;569415 Wrote: What do you mean? I always thought that sftp was just a UI abstraction on the client side. If the server supports ssh, then an sftp client can connect to it. I also believed that, I can do that with own server. But when i do the exact same thing with either

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ssh/sharing via window manager?

2010-08-15 Thread snarlydwarf
Mnyb;569446 Wrote: I also believed that, I can do that with own server. But when i do the exact same thing with either controller radio or Touch it does not work from ubuntu ? I'm always getting ssh program unexpectedly exited man sftp-server on, say Ubuntu... sftp is invoked by sshd,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ssh/sharing via window manager?

2010-08-15 Thread Mnyb
snarlydwarf;569448 Wrote: man sftp-server on, say Ubuntu... sftp is invoked by sshd, but is not part of sshd or the ssh protocol itself, but is tunneled by ssh. you need sftp-server, which neither touch nor controller support (as i recall they don't use openssh at all, but dropbear --