Problems with KBear and SFTP
 

I have been trying to use KBear v. 2.1 on KDE ver. 3.1-4-4 to upload and download to a web site that I maintain. I am using Fedora Core 1.

The protocol is SFTP.

Every time that I try to make a connection with my host I get an error message: "Error encountered while talking to SSH".

I am trying to connect via port 21.

Does anyone have any help or suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Uh, did you try 22? SFTP works over whatever port SSH uses, which is 22 by default (21 is for FTP). You can use nmap on the remote site to verify, but I'm pretty sure just changing it to 22 will allow you to connect.

Thanks for reply....

I've tried port 22, and it appears to attempt connectivity, however I get the error message that "Access is denied to the specific resource".

This is odd, as I can access this sftp server using CuteFTP Pro from my Windows box. The settings I have used are the same.

Any ideas why the server may be refusing connection from KBear?

:scratch:

hmm, not really. You could try using the "sftp" command directly to debug. Also, you might want to check out Konqueror's "sftp://" protocol. It's sweet. In KDE you can also add sftp links to file dialogs so that you can save/open files with any KDE app as if it's local.

Anyhow, see if "sftp" can connect, and post any applicable error messages. Oh yeah, and when you said "The settings I have used are the same", did you mean CuteFTP is using 21? If that's the case, you may be able to connect since CuteFTP is expecting FTP (versus SFTP over SSH). This would mean that you may be blocking 22, but leaving 21 open, and KBear would be able to connect on 21 if you simply changed the expected protocol to plain old FTP.