@uwahl This was the place. By writing a new file named places.conf in /home/phablet/.config/filemanager.ubports/, I was able to get the File Manager app to access the server. Thanks all. Technically solved issue. And yet, performance is incredibly poor. Very slow to load, and read-only.

@arubislander said in Can I boot to tty/console only?: While it may not be exactly what you asked, you might be interested in a post I wrote on installing LXD and running LXD containers on your UT device. I'll be trying this now, thanks for the advice

@ikoz welp, you got me there. Turns out the default keyboard was English (Dvorak); not for the on-screen keyboard, but only when a USB keyboard was plugged in. Thanks!