ssh on LAN 1st steps

I'm trying to get my feet wet for file transfers between home computers on my router, windows and mac later, for now only tw and slowroll. from desktop: ~ ping laptop-IP good ping from both ~ ssh localhost ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused on laptop: # firewall-cmd --add-port=22/tcp success from desktop: ~ ssh laptop-IP ssh: connect to host laptop-IP port 22: Connection refused I guess there's no pint in IP's while even localhost is refusing BTW, if w=and when I get going what kind of trasfer speeds can I expect? TIA