fish query

[pchristy]

I've recently installed kubuntu dapper on my wife's computer. All the other machines in the house run slackware which I know well, but I'm on a bit of a learning curve with kubuntu!

I use the fish protocol for swapping files between machines (fish://mymachine), which works brilliantly on the slack boxes. I can log into the slack boxes from the kubuntu machine OK, but I cannot access the kubuntu machine from the slack boxes!

All other networking appears to work normally!

I've installed the ssh server stuff, and the kde ssh front end, but suspect I'm still missing something, or need to configure something!

Any suggestions as to what might be wrong? I haven't found any useful clues in any of the logs!

(and should this thread be in the networking section? - Though that seems primarily concerned with hardware!)

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Pete

[sky]

Re: fish query

Hi,

It's quite strange problem, I have no troubles to do it between kubuntu boxes.
Are you able to connect by ssh from a slack box to the kubuntu one ?
What are the different versions of kde ?

Cheers

[Cliff76]

Re: fish query

I ssh started and running when you try the fish query?

[pchristy]

Re: fish query

OK, guys, thanks for the pointers - I've cracked it!

I could log in OK using SSH from the command prompt, but fish wouldn't work from Konqeror.

Then I twigged! It wanted the full hostname plus domain name! In Slack, I only need to type in the computer's name, and because they're all on the same domain, it finds it OK. Kubuntu seems to want a fully qualified hostname. Once I gave it that, it all came to life!

Your responses helped me stumble into the solution! Thanks, guys!

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Pete