FTP client

[Orjan Sinclair]

Rob Blomquist wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Thanks for all the info. I tried Konqueror and it worked so well that I 
have not yet bothered to try KBear or KGrabber...
Sinclair