<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body>In thunar you must specify the protocol, i.e. sftp://username@10.0.0.9 Samba is Windows compatible and uses the same cifs protocol but is a Linux-based server in its own right. sftp is fine for small networks though. What does the sftp command do when ran from the command line? See what sftp user@host does. Also see if pinging the machines gives a.response. Josh <div class="gmail_quote">Phil <phil_lor@bigpond.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px">On 08/01/13 02:19, Joshua O'Leary wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Nautilus does support sftp (connect to>ssh) as does thunar - make sure gvfs-backends is installed, do Control+L in thunar and enter sftp://user@host/path Replacing thosewith the actual username etc. Something like samba or NFS may be more suitable than ssh/sftp if you transfer files often.</blockquote> Thanks Joshua, This could be where I'm going wrong. I do had gvfs installed and ctl+l simply highlights the address that appears in Thunar's address bar. If I enter <a href="http://10.0.0.9">10.0.0.9</a> nothing happens, so I must be entering the address in the wrong place. Nautilus looks more promising. If I enter <a href="http://10.0.0.9">10.0.0.9</a> into the server box under "connect to server" I'm eventually told that "ssh program unexpectedly exited". Isn't Samba a tool to access Windows PCs rather than PCs running under Linux? I don't have a real need to network the two laptops but there have been times when it would be handy to transfer a file without messing around with USB sticks. </pre></blockquote></div></body></html></body></html>