Comments on: Use ssh to browse remote file system in Dolphin & Konqueror on KDE

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:25:11 +0000

In reply to Justin.

scp being a core command line utility will be the fastest.
however, for small files, dolphin should work fine with the fish protocol.
for example when editing text or code files on a web server.

i browse webserver in dolphin using fish protocol and then open/edit .php files in kate and its good.
never tried transferring large files. could be slower than scp, but should work.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:13:43 +0000

Unfortunately, it’s still much slower than copying over “scp”: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296526

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:51:05 +0000

In reply to Martien. yes that is an excellent way to setup file sharing across computers on a LAN.

By: Martien

Martien — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 13:53:26 +0000

The possibility in Dolphin to do file transfer to another PC was unknown for me, but it great and handy tool.
Fist establish the LAN connection by a switch or cross cable between the two Linux PC.
Test the communication between the two PC by pinging the IP adresses, for example 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2.
Then install the openssh-server op both PC’s!
Then in Dophin add a new item below network in the left part of the screen and add “fish://username@10.0.0.2”
You will prompted to type the password for the target PC were the files will be copied.
With the split screen you can drag and drop the files to the target PC

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:52:10 +0000

very helpful!!

By: An0nym0usC0ward

An0nym0usC0ward — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:24:00 +0000

Oddity I just found: adding keys to ssh-agent, and configuring hosts in ~/.ssh/config gets dolphin to use this info for sftp but not for fish. :-/

By: james

james — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:16:00 +0000

wasn’t aware of “fish” syntax in dolphin. thanks a lot. very helpful