I have yet to have success with android devices connecting to my Ubuntu machine (which is... weird). Likewise, I'm a network centric kind of guy and rarely have cables on me to connect anyway, as they tend to stay at their respective charging station (my nightstand). Instead I use a combination (depending on what I'm doing) of samba and air droid (on play store). You can rig up your main system with samba, or use a dedicated file server. From there es file explorer, as somebody mentioned, will allow you to connect, browse, copy, etc. It's a great app and worked very well for me having already had a basic samba setup. Samba isn't that difficult to set up though. If I recall the sharing functionality under properties within Nautilus might get you there, but I haven't tried that personally to be positive. Air droid is different yet similar, if that makes sense, giving you a web based frontend to your device. Like the samba setup you can browse files etc etc. Both are great utilities. I use them both frequently. Hope this helps. Have a good night! -J Sent from my Android <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 1, 2014 11:09 PM, "Nathan Dorfman" <<a href="mailto:na@rtfm.net">na@rtfm.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jim Byrnes <<a href="mailto:jf_byrnes@comcast.net">jf_byrnes@comcast.net</a>> wrote: > If I open Nautilus on my desktop or laptop and double click on Network I can > see entries for them in Nautilus and they can share files, etc.Â The tablet > does not show up in Nautilus when I do this and I have not been able to find > any way on the tablet to interact with the other machines on the network. Assuming those are SMB shares like Robert said, you should be able to access those from your tablet using any one of a number of apps, like ES File Explorer. You can also run an ssh/sftp server on your Ubuntu machine and use apps like ConnectBot or AndFTP to access it. The tablet won't appear in Nautilus because it's not a SMB server. You could probably set it up to be one by installing some app, but I wouldn't recommend it. If you really want to access it from Nautilus, you could try something like SSHDroid, which is an ssh server for Android. Once it's running, you should be able to open it in Nautilus by pressing Ctrl+L and entering something like sftp://<username>@<tablet_ip>. (The app will have more detailed instructions.) -nd. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>