OT Can I connect my two computers together with FireWire

[Eberhard Roloff]

Jim wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
>> I would like to transfer data from one computer to another.  I have a firewire 
>> cable. If I connect the two computers together with the FireWire cable, will 
>> I be able to communicate back and forth and transfer data from one to the 
>> other this way?  Thanks!
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>   
> Are you using Gnome or KDE ??
> 
> KDE has a neat little application built in to Konqueror, calles "fish"
> If I want  to send some data/files to another computer on my home 
> network ,  in the  Konqueror "Location" box i type in
> 
> fish://bob@192.168.1.100 , and  ssh (on my computer) will display a 
> Konqueror window of the 192.168.1.100 computer.
> then I can drag-drop files , folders to and from both computers.
> 
> Be sure sshd is enabled in both computers, and you have a folder&file  
> ~/.ssh/known_hosts on both computers.
> 
more precisely sshd needs to run on the remote client. On the local 
machine, you just need to have the ssh client, not the ssh server daemon.

Eberhard