File Sharing 2 linux machines

[Jim]

Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Jim:
>
> On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 05:23  PM, Jim wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if I could get some help on this one. I own a Mac G3 
>> and a Compaq i586. I am running Ydl 3.0 on the Mac and RedHat Linux 
>> 8.0 on the Compaq. They are both on my home network, and I want to 
>> share files between both of them,what will I have to do to get this 
>> to work?
>
>
> One way to do this is to turn on SSH (secure shell) for both machines 
> using the SSH daemon (called sshd). Then you can type 
> "sftp://username@remoteIPaddress" in the Konqueror browser address 
> field (substituting your username and the actual IP address). This 
> will allow you to browse, move, copy and delete files as if they were 
> on your local machine. You can also accomplish these same results from 
> the command line using ssh and sftp, but the command line can be 
> clumsy (I can never spell complex paths accurately). There are 
> probably other, more traditional networking ways to do this, but 
> ssh/sftp have the advantage of being very secure.
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
>
Thanks for the help Clinton.
I tried useing ssh in the Konquer browser with my username@ipaddress,but 
I could not get it to work,it told me could not connect to host localhost.
any suggestions?
Jim