I've been trying to help someone out with this problem, and not using Kbear installed it on one of my Debian distro's. I have no problems using Fish with Konqueror in both directions from my 2 machines. Kbear works ok using the FTP protocol. I removed the key on the Debian machine from. /home/user_name/.ssh/known_hosts. Then started Kbear. Entered the IPaddress of the other machine, selected "Fish" as protocol, entered user name, and password, and for it to access /home/user directory. Asking it to connect brings up the request panel regarding the key. "Do you want to continue?" "Yes". Kbear then creates a new key to replace the one I had deleted for accessing this IPaddress. This is as far as it gets. It just hangs then, and doesn't connect to the address. Anyone any suggestions? There used to be a facility for contacting the authors of individual apps at kde.org, but this seems to have disappeared. But as the site is quite extensive, perhaps I just can't find it. (Bit like finding your way round the Sun Microsystems site). In anticipation. Nigel. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.