From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 01:08:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E03316A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:08:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9D943D55 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:08:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7FC60F4; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:08:46 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85015-04; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:08:43 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA3C60ED; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:08:43 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41B502B4.7040403@makeworld.com> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:09:08 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Smith References: <20041207003710.GD740@internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20041207003710.GD740@internode.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.0 (20041102) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE, FreeBSD & fish X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:08:49 -0000 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.