Nautilus and remote servers

[volvoguy]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use the Nautilus "Connect to Server" tool to connect to
a remote server (outside my LAN). I've tried both FTP and SSH - both
of which are running fine on the remote server, and I've tried using
both the name of the server and it's IP address. I never get anything
but a spinning busy cursor. SHOULD I be able to connect to a remote
machine like this or am I just wasting my time?

One of the main reasons I'm trying to do this is because I'd like to
be able to edit remote HTML files with gedit or screem. In Windows I
used Ultraedit which has built in functionality for opening and saving
files via SFTP, and on the rare occasion I needed to do the job on my
old iMac, I used Fugu (a SFTP and/or SSH/SCP client) which let me work
on the files as if they were local.

You got the long version of my issue in case there's a completely
different or better way of tackling the problem that I don't know
about. :-)

Thanks all!

-- 
Aaron

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