Connecting K Feisty to K Feisty

[LaneLester]

I finally got tired of fiddling with Win XP on my wife's laptop, and I moved her to Kubuntu Feisty. She can still dual boot to Windows when she wants to play Kyodai.

But this is my first chance to share two Linux boxes across my home LAN. I added her IP to the list of hosts in Knetworkmanager. Then I used Konqueror to go to the FAT32 folder I want to share with her and I did Properties / Share, and it said, "You need to be authorized to share folders." That seemed a bit strange, because I was running as root at the time. I then clicked "Configure File Sharing." The new screen was all grayed out, and the message at the top was unreadable, because it was two lines long and there was only space for one line, showing me the bottom half of the first line and the top half of the second.

I confirmed that ext3 folders behave the same as the FAT32.

How can I get the two Kubuntu boxes sharing folders?

Lane

[sky]

Re: Connecting K Feisty to K Feisty

Hi,

I've always used only fish between two kde boxes... It's a kde protocol over ssh, for this you have to install ssh, then in konqueror, type :
fish://login@<ip_or_name_of_distant>/

And you're connected...

Cheers

[LaneLester]

Re: Connecting K Feisty to K Feisty

fish://login@<ip_or_name_of_distant>/
And you're connected...

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I'm hoping for a convenient way for my wife to have access to one partition on my system.

Lane

[LaneLester]

Re: Connecting K Feisty to K Feisty

I've always used only fish between two kde boxes... It's a kde protocol over ssh, for this you have to install ssh, then in konqueror, type :
fish://login@<ip_or_name_of_distant>/

Well, I got problems. This is what I get after installing fish and ssh:
~# fish://login@192.168.1.20/
bash: fish://login@192.168.1.20/: No such file or directory
~# fish
Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type help for instructions on how to use fish
~> help

Lane

[sky]

Re: Connecting K Feisty to K Feisty

Hi,

Sorry maybe I confused
In fact, first you should try to make a ssh connection from a konsole to second machine to check if link is ok. if yes, just exit and launch a konqueror
From the conqueror, type in the address bar :
fish://login@ip/
It will ask for password and you should be connect to home folder of the user.
If you don't want to bother with password, I guess you can or set kwallet to remember or type this instead :
fish://loginassword@ip/

Hope it helps

[kubicle]

Re: Connecting K Feisty to K Feisty

Well, I got problems. This is what I get after installing fish and ssh:
~# fish://login@192.168.1.20/
bash: fish://login@192.168.1.20/: No such file or directory

By 'login' sky means the username on the remote machine to which you're trying to log in,
for example

fish://lanelester@192.168.1.20

.

As sky pointed out, fish:// is a konqueror protocol, you can use it in the konqueror addressbar to browse the remote machine.

you can test a ssh connection in the shell (konsole) with

ssh lanelester@192.168.1.20

(Ctrl-D, 'exit' or 'logout' will disconnect from the remote machine)

[LaneLester]

Re: Connecting K Feisty to K Feisty

Thanks for the further help, guys. I should have recognized that as a "URL" from the "://" part. When I tried the ssh test I got this:

~# ssh lane@192.168.1.20
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.20 port 22: Connection refused

The machine is there:
~# ping 192.168.1.20
PING 192.168.1.20 (192.168.1.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.20: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=8.30 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=2.67 ms

lane is a user on that machine with a password. I assume some other settings are needed on that machine, but I'm too much of a noob to know what. ssh --help didn't help.

Lane

[sky]

Re: Connecting K Feisty to K Feisty

Hi,

Did you install ssh first ? On both machine...

[LaneLester]

Re: Connecting K Feisty to K Feisty

Did you install ssh first ? On both machine...

Oops! Well, now that I have, everythings works fine. Many thanks.

Lane