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When using Nautilus Connect to Server to connect with an iPhone over SSH, it takes me to a location that just has the Media and Library folders. Their location is

sftp://192.168.x.x/private/var/root/

How do you get to the /var or /private folders? Nautilus just shows the (192.168.x.x) button that takes you to sftp://192.168.x.x/private/var/root/.

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  • What happens if you manually go to sftp://192.168.x.x/var/?
    – gertvdijk
    Jul 12, 2013 at 20:38
  • That works, but how do I do it in the nautilus GUI?
    – kelvinsong
    Jul 12, 2013 at 21:17
  • I think Ctrl+L should work to get a manual location bar. Or use the application menus to connect to a server and fill in all fields individually.
    – gertvdijk
    Jul 13, 2013 at 1:07
  • Yes that worked!
    – kelvinsong
    Jul 13, 2013 at 1:27

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By pressing Ctrl+L you'll see a textual/manual location bar appears in Nautilus file manager. Then edit the path yourself as you wish, e.g.

sftp://192.168.x.x/var/

I think it will go to /private/var/root/ by default, because that is probably the home directory of the user on the remote end. The same thing happens when connecting to another host using SSH - your current working directory will be something like /home/user.

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