[kde-linux] kde status

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 28 February 2009 09:53:56 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Saturday 28 February 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 27 February 2009 20:13:54 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Kevin - clarification, please.  I thought fish: was using ssh?  The
> > reason I ask is that my Fedora10 netbook can connect by ssh but not by
> > fish:
>
> Both use SSH as the protocol/encrypted transport.
>
> SFTP is a real file transfer extension for SSH, which is why it has to be
> supported by and enabled in the server.
> Just like FTP it supports operations on files directly.
>
> Fish is based on simulating that by running commands in a shell session of
> a normal SSH connection.
> So the SSH side requirements are lower, just need to be able to open a SSH
> connection, however the remote side must allow a shell session and be able
> to execute shell and/or perl scripts.
>
> Hope that helps understand the differences a bit better.
>
Not really :-)  Perhaps I just have a blind spot here.  Can you explain that 
again, in terms of my ssh session from a terminal being accepted, but a fish 
session from konqueror is rejected?

Anne
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