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I have installed BerryBoot on a microSD card which I use with a Raspberry Pi 3. On this card, I now have a quadruple boot: Raspbian, UbuntuMATE, OpenELEC and Retropie. I am able to launch all operating systems fine by using a keyboard, a mouse and a screen connected directly to the Pi.

Now I want to transfer files from the house main computer (running under Ubuntu 14.04) to RetroPi. I would like to do the transfer through Nautilus since this interface is more user-friendly than using the console.

I boot the Pi and start RetroPi. I am able to ssh from Ubuntu to Retropi using the console. But when I type the following line from the Nautilus menu (Go -> Enter Location):

sftp://192.168.1.3

I get the following error message:

Oops! Something went wrong. Don't have permission to access the requested location.

Any idea why I am getting this error message ? Are there different parameters to allow SSH (working) and SFTP (not working) access on RetroPi ?

Additional Information

1) I get the same error when I try to SFTP into UbuntuMATE.

2) I get the same error when I specity the user name on the Pi:

sftp://pi@192.168.1.3

3) Here is some information I get from running sftp in the terminal:

phodor@UBUNTU: sftp -vvv pi@192.168.1.3
OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.3 [192.168.1.3] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.3 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.3 port 22: Connection refused
Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer
martin_0004
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I was able to solve the problem. It turns out there was a key mismatch when doing the ssh between my Ubuntu computer and RetroPie. The IP mismatch was probably caused when I restarted my Pi. I guess IP 192.168.1.3 had been re-associated to OpenELEC or UbuntuMATE. Nautilus was not providing me with any information about this.

When trying to run ssh again in the terminal, I got a new warning and the terminal suggested to run the following command to reset my keys, which solved the issue:

sudo ssh-keygen -f "/root/.ssh/known_hosts" -R 192.168.1.3

I guess the next step will be to ask static IPs for each Virtual machine on my Pi 3:

Raspbian -> 192.168.1.101
UbuntuMATE -> 192.168.1.102
OpenELEC -> 192.168.1.103
RetroPie -> 192.168.1.104

Thanks to all who answered: your comments led me to the solution !

martin_0004
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You probably need to specify user to the Nautilus. Something like 

sftp://pi@192.168.1.3

should do the job. But also verify if it works from command-line:

sftp pi@192.168.1.3

If not, add some verbosity to the output: -vvv switches to sftp will tell you more. See my other AskUbuntu answer.

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Jakuje
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You must enable ssh on retro-pi configuration (interface menu).

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