Dolphin and sftp protocol problem
 

I downloaded Slackware64-current to give it a try on my laptop and all went well as usual. However when trying to connect to another computer from Dolphin via sftp I was informed that sftp is an 'invalid protocol'. I can use ftp, though. Same thing happens with Konqueror. Using Konsole I can successfully start sftp, although that is not exactly what I want or need.

For me, this is really a major problem as my office computer can only be accessed at home via secure shell. I need to be able to upload/download files and folders from there and from other machines. I wasn't really aware of how heavily I depend on this until now!

Has anyone else run into this problem? If so, is there a fix or a workaround?

thirteen

For secure shell you need to use the fish kioslave.
From within Dolphin, use View -> Location Bar and check the Editable Location box.
Type a command like this 'fish://username@hostname' into the location bar. You may need to add a colon and the portnumber if you are using a nonstandard secure shell port.

Thanks. Works just like sftp:// used to.

BTW, is this brand-new to KDE? Up to and including the previous version I've been using sftp://.

Cheers :)

thirteen

See Eric's comment in his blog about the KDE packages (http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-13-1-beta1/):