I thought that removing that metapackage would remove both client and server, sorry for my nescience.

I also just added a guide on setting up public key based login as the user on the N900 instead of root which should avoid possible permission issues of files copied to the N900 and make the whole thing more secure:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...318#post484318

Accessing the fs then as user with sshfs:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...334#post484334

My guides however focus exclusively on having a linux computer to connect from, so they are just an addition here.

yes, removing the metapackage will remove the other two as well, but he asked if he needed to install this additional package also... if i understood him correctly

Ah ok I misunderstood him

I have a one step alternative:

Use the terminal!

The day the N900 gets delivered with "the big book of linux" - wannabe hacker/dev edition I will.

Till then I'll avoid it in any way I can

The biggest most importand and absolute necessary thing to know about the linux shell to know is: there is TAB completion !!

If you want to see all commands available to the current user that start with e.g. the letter 'l' just type 'l' and then hit the "TAB" button twice. You'll get a list of all avilable commands that start with 'l'. You can always hit tab, even to verify you spell the commands correctly. Additionally, when entering a path in a filesystem, TAB also completes the paths or shows you all available ones.

Just start the X Terminal and type (all but the < and > character)

ls MyD <TAB><TAB><TAB>.doc<TAB><Enter>

If someone really wants to know more about the Linux on the command line, I can recommend these online books:

For a good overview and typical tipps and tricks:
http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html

As great reference and a really good overview of most linux commands:
http://books.google.de/books?id=sI_X...age&q=&f=false

Especially the chapter "Linux commands" is really useful.
Beside that I can only suggest to try everything on some Linux on a big computer first, before screwing up your N900, a good and quick start would e.g. to boot a ubuntu live CD.

I tried this in my WLAN and works nicely. Thanks. Few questions,
Should the n900 and the computer should be on the same WLAN/Network for this to work? Or can this be done from anywhere in the world over the internet if we know the ip?
Also if i use the ip using the showip.net it shows me the public ip of n900 and it doesnt work in the winscp when i tried. The ip assigned by my WLAN router is the one which works fine. Can you clarify?

I get "Connection refused" from WinSCP, do I need to have Wi-Fi to use this? With iPhone I managed to get full access with WinSCP without Wi-Fi (Just openSSH, USB cable and WinSCP.)

I really don't think you connected iphone via usb with winscp and Openssh alone, when I used to do this it was a little more complicated tha that.

Either way this tutorial requires indeed wi-fi.

But why would you bother that much since N900 connects "just like that" via usb, plug n' play?
If you think it's worth bothering here's some guys who did it: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37720
Or read this: http://sumoudou.org/相撲外：Mount%20the%...%20a%20PC.html