Accessing remote:/ from KDE3.5.x applications in KDE4

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

> Thanks for the suggestion. I should have been more clear, though; I
> was hoping to avoid using sshfs because I have a number of different
> remote sites that I need to connect to. Having access to the remote:/
> kio_slave in my KDE 3.5.10 applications would make life easier rather
> than trying to manage a cumbersome number of different sshfs mounted
> directories, especially since many of my remote sites automatically
> disconnect after a set period of time.

Normally remote sites drop connections when they become inactive.

Have you tried adding a KeepAlive to your ssh config to prevent this. 
Something like

TCPKeepAlive yes
ServerAliveInterval 300

to your ~/.ssh/config file ?

cheers Chris