OT Can I connect my two computers together with FireWire

[Jim]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Jim wrote:
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>> Steven Vollom wrote:
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>>> 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
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Yes, but what happens when the server wants to connect to the client ??
Just be safe and have sshd running on both boxes.