How can I browse files from a computer?

Vlad Nirky

@mihael
For my part (old school), I use Midnight Commander with one of the two panels in SSH on the PC.

johndoe

@mihael For getting Files of your desktop PC from your phone to your phone, you could try out "Linux Desktop Monitor" from the Open Store. I have not tried it out myself, but it is maybe what you are looking for.
For getting files of your phone or putting files to your phone from your desktop PC, you could probably just use an USB cable. Should the PC not see your phone, you maybe need to enable the Developer Mode under System Settings > System information.

mihael

@johndoe Thank you, I will give a try to "Linux Desktop Monitor", I saw in one of the presentation pictures in Open Store that it had a button "Browse Desktop Files" - let's see how that works...

But "Linux Desktop Monitor" needs a script to run on the linux computer - I was wondering why isn't it possible just by ssh / fish?

mihael

johndoe

@mihael It is probably for the other features of the app. But you could also open the python script with a texteditor before running it. So you can see what it actually does and do not have to blidly trust it.

Personally, I connect my phone with an USB cable to the PC, if I want to exchange files. But than you access your phone with your PC.

Bolly

In File Explorer, try...

sftp://phablet@192.168.1.5
fish://phablet@192.168.1.5
ssh://phablet@192.168.1.5

More information in Spanish: https://elcondonrotodegnu.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/administrar-archivos-de-ubuntu-touch-con-el-administrador-de-archivos-del-pc-mediante-wifi/

mihael

I can edit /home/phablet/.config/filemanager.ubports/places.conf and add there the fish:// connection to my PC but then File Manager says "path or url may not exist or cannot e read".

mihael

@johndoe I was able to browse files from the PC with the app "Linux Desktop Monitor". For now this is the only solution that works...

Bolly

@mihael, I'm sorry, I misunderstood.

I thought you were referring to PC to UT, not UT to PC.

Vlad Nirky

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Keli

I struggled with this on UT. Eventually I installed dufs webdav server and I've been using that with morph.
I can download files from the PC easily and I can push files to the PC easily as well using a web browser. I can even stream videos from the PC this way!