HOWTO: How to access your files on a remote PardusPC

Revision as of 19:23, 5 April 2010

Introduction

This is a manual on how to access your files on a remote PardusPC, which is connected to a router. This is very useful when you are comfortably sitting in your chair with your notebook and you want to manipulate your files on a fixed Desktop computer. To do this we need to start a Secure Shell Server(SSH) and make changes to the firewall before we can have access (read/write) to our files in Konqueror or Krusader.

IP address of remote PardusPC

It is highly recommended to give the remote PardusPC a fixed IP address. Look in this page how to do this.

Settings on all computers

[Pardus]>[Tasma]>[System]>[Service Manager]
     Select [Secure Shell Server].
     Put a mark at {Run on startup} and activate the green (Start)button.
     In the column {Run on Startup} {Yes} should be shown.
     [Back].
[Internet & Network]>[Firewall Config] 
     [Start Firewall] (if not already running)
     Put a mark at {Remote login service}
     [Apply]>[Back] and close Tasma

Connect to the remote computer

For Pardus 2009

Open Dolphin and goto Network > Network Services > Remote disk (fish) > remote_machine_name

Or enter in the location bar:

fish://remote_machine_name.local:22/home/my_usersname

remote_machine_name = On remote computer open Network Manager > Nameserver Settings > Machine Name

When using the IP address of the remote computer enter:

fish://username@ip.address.of_the_remote.computer

If we take this [2] and this [2] as an example it would be:

 fish://juser@192.168.0.101:22 + <enter>

To solve a "Can't connect to ip.address.of_the_remote.computer" error, remove the file /home/your_userneme/.ssh/known_hosts on the local computer and try again.

For pardus 2008

To do this we need to know:

• Username of the user
• Password of the user
• IP address of the remote computer

Open Home (Konqueror) or Krusader and enter at Location:

fish://ip.address.of_the_remote.computer/home/username + <enter>

If we take this [2] and this [1] as an example it would be:

 fish://192.168.62.55/home/juser + <enter>

During inputting the above "fish:.." line a "Question-Konqueror" window with "The authenticity ..... Are you sure you want to continue connecting" will appear. Select [Yes] and continue with your input.

After <enter> a "SSH Athorization....." window will appear.

Enter the password of the user + [OK]

And (if everything is OK) your files will appear and you can edit your files as if they were on your local computer.

It is possible to make a Link to Location (URL)... with {fish://IP.address.of.the.remote.computer/home/username} shortcut on your Desktop.