[mostly solved] Fish won't work (long)

[Nils Kassube]

Tony Sivori wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:11:21 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Tony Sivori wrote:
> >> I can't get fish to work as described here:
> >>
> >> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6102390.html
> >>
> >> Both computers run Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 3.5.10. Identical
> >> usernames and passwords. I enabled fish in Konqueror settings as
> >> described in the above linked web page.
> >>
> >> fish://username@oldcomputer
> >>
> >> An error occurred while loading fish://username@oldcomputer: Could
> >> not connect to host oldcomputer.
> >
> > I suppose you need to install the package openssh-server.
>
> Would that have been installed with ssh?

Yes, indeed. I never noticed there is a meta package for both server and 
client. That means my assumption was wrong and you had it installed 
already.

> I installed ssh, I have found that fish now works when Konqueror is
> run as root. Should I have to do that, or should fish work as a
> normal user?

No, it should work as normal user. I use it quite often and I never 
start konqueror as root.


Nils