OT Can I connect my two computers together with FireWire

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Steven Vollom wrote:
>>> I would like to transfer data from one computer to another.  I have a firewire 
>>> cable. If I connect the two computers together with the FireWire cable, will 
>>> I be able to communicate back and forth and transfer data from one to the 
>>> other this way?  Thanks!
>>>
>>> Steven
>>>
>>>   
>> Are you using Gnome or KDE ??
>>
>> KDE has a neat little application built in to Konqueror, calles "fish"
>> If I want  to send some data/files to another computer on my home 
>> network ,  in the  Konqueror "Location" box i type in
>>
>> fish://bob@192.168.1.100 , and  ssh (on my computer) will display a 
>> Konqueror window of the 192.168.1.100 computer.
>> then I can drag-drop files , folders to and from both computers.
>>
>> Be sure sshd is enabled in both computers, and you have a folder&file  
>> ~/.ssh/known_hosts on both computers.
>>
> more precisely sshd needs to run on the remote client. On the local 
> machine, you just need to have the ssh client, not the ssh server daemon.
> 
> Eberhard
> 

I would add that you can use sfp:// instead of fish://; at least with 
Kubuntu 8.04, the second way seems to be faster and more reliable over 
huge number of files (I think there has been some discussion of this in 
the list in the past).
HTH,
I.

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