I have Dropbox on my Ubuntu desktop, and I am working remotely on my laptop. I would like to add files from my desktop to Dropbox and then access them on my laptop.

So, I did the following:

ssh tomydesktop
ln -s myfile.txt ~/Dropbox/

and then when I

ls ~/Dropbox

myfile.txt shows up

However, myfile.txt does not show up either on the Dropbox website version of the folder or on my laptop.

Do I need to somehow "sync" the Dropbox folder from the desktop? I do not see any sync options on my laptop or on the website.