KDE, FreeBSD & fish

[Chris]

Adam Smith wrote:
> I've used Konqueror many times before to connect from abroad to my machine
> at home using fish://.
> 
> Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn't.  I've had several
> reinstallations on my laptop over the last few months for a few various
> reasons, and I've noticed that on some installations it 'just works' and on
> some it doesn't.
> 
> I'm connecting from KDE 3.3 on FreeBSD 5.3 to a FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine.  All
> I get in my output in the status bar is 'Connecting...' before it
> eventually times out.
> 
> Yup, I can SSH in normally from this location.  Fish just doesn't work.  So
> is this feature dodgy as far as anyone knows?  It's a real pain in the arse
> when it doesn't work, because fish is extraordinarily handy for copying
> files using a GUI without having to implement something like FTP.  So how
> irritating when it doesn't work :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> PS: I've never been so sure as to where to post queries like this --
> freebsd-questions or one of the KDE mailing lists, or both.  But I guess it
> can't hurt to post to either.  And I choose here :)
> 
> 

KBear (/usr/ports/ftp/kbear) support sftp - so does gFTP 
(/usr/ports/ftp/gftp)

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

Some people manage by the book, even though they
don't know who wrote the book or even what book.