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Re: [LUG] re networking for dummies

 

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Mark Jose wrote:
> On Sunday 31 December 2006 14:03, viv wrote:
> 
>>>> Hi, I have just reinstalled one of my machines with Kubuntu 6.10 and am
>>>> very happy with it except the networking is not working.
>>> Networking with what? Windows or the internet generally?
>> Thanks Neil. I just have 2 machines - the other is Ubuntu 6.06
>>
> 
> If I was just using two machines, both running Kubuntu, I would use fish. Fish 
> is a graphical front end for ssh really, so you need to install ssh and then 
> you can use Konqueror to go to the other machine really easily by simply 
> typing in  fish://IP_of_other_machine and you will get a dialog box asking 
> for the username and password for the other machine. I find it best to ssh 
> into the other machine once via the Konsole to accept the RSA keys for the 
> other system but after that, using fish works perfectly. No need to share 
> stuff - you can access all the files that way.
> Some info over on the Ubuntu wiki, which also mentions fish and Kubuntu - 
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHHowto
> 

sftp might also be an option...

sftp://ip.of.other.pc/

in to the file browser (Konqueror ?) of your choise... I beleive there
is also sshfs which allows you to mount remote volumes over ssh... never
tried this though..

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Neil Stone

Systems Administrator
FlashTek UK

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