On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 09:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I'm using KDE 4.3.2 on Gentoo AMD64.
>>>
>>> In Dolphin, I click "Places->Network". There, I start the "Add Network
>>> Folder" wizard. It gives me a choice between "WebFolder (webdav)",
>>> "FTP", "Microsoft(R) Windows(R) network drive" and "Secure shell (ssh)".
>>>
>>> There's no "SFTP" option, so "ssh" seems the correct choice. However,
>>> when I go ahead and fill all the info, "fish://" is used instead of
>>> "sftp://";. Trying to manually change it into "sftp://"; results in an
>>> error message: "Creating symlinks is not supported with protocol remote."
>>>
>>> Is the omission of SFTP on purpose or just an oversight? "fish" is not
>>> a substitute for SFTP because it tried to login to the remote server
>>> using a password while I'm using SSH public/private keys.
>>
>>
>> According to this bug sftp should work:
>>
>> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164149
>
> This is unrelated to Network Folders. SFTP does work in general, just
> *not* in Network Folders, which is the problem my post is about :)
Oops, sorry about that. Someday I will read entire messages before replying. :)
It looks like Kubuntu has a patch to maybe add SFTP in that place?
(untested by me)
Index: kdebase-runtime-4.2.0/knetattach/knetattach.cpp
===================================================================
--- kdebase-runtime-4.2.0.orig/knetattach/knetattach.cpp 2009-01-01
12:55:21.000000000 -0330
+++ kdebase-runtime-4.2.0/knetattach/knetattach.cpp 2009-01-22
21:19:06.000000000 -0330
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
KConfig config("kio_fishrc");
KConfigGroup cg(&config, _host->text().trimmed());
cg.writeEntry("Charset",
KGlobal::charsets()->encodingForName(_encoding->currentText()));
- url.setProtocol("fish");
+ url.setProtocol("sftp");
url.setPort(_port->value());
} else if (_type == "FTP") {
url.setProtocol("ftp");
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