[kde-linux] kde status

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 27 February 2009, Erbureth wrote:
> > Oops - I forgot about this.  No, it was Konqueror.  I tried to use
> > fish:// to access my home directory on a remote box.  This laptop with
> > 4.1.3 could do it. The netbook with 4.2 couldn't and gave that "refused
> > to allow this computer to make a connection" messagge.
>
> Have you tried using sftp:// instead of fish://? Saved me from lots of
> troubles with connecting to my school's server.

While sftp is definitely preferable over fish, it needs a respective SSH 
server setup, i.e. sftp needs to be enabled in its config.

> PS: Isn't sshfs a better option?

Depends.
The KIO way allows applications to understand that they are not dealing with a 
local file, e.g. decide not to use blocking read calls, expect data to come 
in portions or be interrupted etc.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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