The elder gods, manifesting through Andy Green, recently decreed: > Forget everything else, use scp. > > scp username@hostname:/path/to/things localdestinationpath > > to copy the remote file to the local PC SCP is indeed the superior route, in my opinion. > If you have KDE on your notebook or desktop, you can use the ultra-cool > fish:// protocol to view and drag and drop files from the remote PC > using ssh so it is all encrypted. > > For example, in konqueror > > fish://username@hostname/path/to/things > > Will, after getting a password from you, show you the directory listing > of /path/to/things on the remote computer hostname, with you "logged in" > on the remote computer as "username". > > That directory listing follows all the same semantics as a local > directory listing, you can delete files (according to the privs owned by > the username you "logged in" with on the fish:// line) drag and drop and > so on. > > It doesn't need KDE on the remote computer either, so you can get all > these convenient powers of management in local konqueror even on a > headless server in another country. Really cool! Wow, I had no idea such a thing as Fish even existed! Well, you learn something new every day. -- Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K) http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview "We live as though the world were how it should be, to show it what it can be." --"Angel", Season 4 ep. 1
