FTP client

[Rob Blomquist]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 11:20, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Raphaël Pinson wrote:
> > On 9/28/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> >> James Tappin wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:58:32 +0200
> >> > Orjan Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > OS> Anyone willing to recommend a KDE ftp-client (graphical)?
> >> >
> >> > Konqueror -- just enter an ftp://..... url (ftp://user@.... for
> >> > non-anonymous[*] ftp), and drag files to the desired local dir -- the
> >> > only gotcha is if for non-anonymous ftp the machine at the other end
> >> > is a VMS box (at least last time I tried) it couldn't hand VMS paths.
> >>
> >> Or fish:// for secure file transfer.
> >
> > Fish is not ftp. It starts a distant session via ssh on the machine. It
> > is not useful for file transfer only, because sftp (secure ftp) uses ssh
> > aswell, but is faster since it doesn't start a whole ssh session on the
> > distant machine.
>
> Absolutely - but that's the point.  Why use an FTP client when you can use
> konqueror and get all sorts of other remote file browsers.  smb:// is an
> option, too.  Konqueror's the koolest!

Konq does it very well for me. I tried KBear for awhile, but found it harder 
to configure and use than Konqueror.

Rob

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