kio_fish is a kioslave for KDE 2/3 that lets you view and manipulate your remote files using just a simple shell account and some standard unix commands on the remote machine. You get full filesystem access without setting up a server - no NFS, Samba, ... needed.

Usage is really simple: open up a konqueror window (or use the Alt-F2 dialog) and type 'fish://user@remote.machi.ne'. kio_fish will ask you for the password, if any is needed, and you will start out in your home directory. Now you can do everything you do on your local hard disk.

Please help:

I would appreciate assistance for the following problems:

• other SSH implementations - this is known to work with OpenSSH and F-Secure SSH on the client and the server, and it currently does not work with Network Simplicity's OpenSSH for Windows (due to /bin/sh not existing). I would like to hear of other SSH's, if they work or if they don't.
• remote machines - kio_fish has been tested on many different machines (Operating Systems). Still, if you have access to a really weird machine, try it and tell me about it. I would very much like to hear about windows machines.

  Remote OS Compatibility List:

  System name	Has Perl mode?	Shell mode works?	reported by
  generic Linux	yes	yes	author
  Cobalt RaQ (Linux)	yes	yes	author
  NetBSD 1.5.1	yes	yes	author
  AIX 4.3.3	unknown	yes	author
  Digital Unix	yes	yes	author
  SunOS 5.8	yes	unknown (very likely yes)	Thilo Bangert
  Solaris 8 Sparc	yes>	unknown (very likely yes)	Andy Fawcett
  MacOS X	yes	unknown (very likely yes)	Pim Snel

  
  
• non-linux builds - kio_fish was developed on linux, I would appreciate success reports of other operating systems. It is confirmed to run on BSDish systems and on Solaris as well.

News:

21.6.2002:

Cajus Pollmeier contributed a patch to compile current releases on KDE2

4.6.2002:

kio_fish-1.1.2: Fixed URL abuse through shell metacharacters, synced to CVS version.

11.4.2002:

kio_fish today moved into KDE CVS and will be part of KDE 3.1. Work will continue, and please do send lots and lots of "works" and "doesn't work" messages. I may make available one or two more releases via this page, but ultimately, the CVS version (kdebase/kioslave/fish) is the only really up-to-date version.

9.4.2002:

kio_fish-1.1.1: A bug with symlinks on non-perl remote machines fixed, made compatible to perl 5.005

22.3.2002:

kio_fish-1.1: All known bugs fixed, several improvements. kio_fish is more stable and much faster now. KDE 2 and 3.

3.3.2002:

For all the impatient: Yes, there is a KDE-3 Version in development, I just have to find one nasty bug.

22.10.2001:

kio_fish-1.0.1: Small compile time bug fix for all glibc 2.1.x users

7.10.2001:

Initial release 1.0 (yes, it is already stable)

Download:

From KDE 3.1 on, kio_fish comes with the kdebase package.

This is the source distribution:

• kio_fish-1.1.2.tar.bz2 for KDE 3 (KDE2 is possible with the patch below),
• kio_fish-1.1.2-kde2.diff.bz2 - patch to compile against KDE2. Run "bunzip2 -c kio_fish-1.1.2-kde2.diff.bz2 | patch -p1; aclocal; automake; autoconf" in the kio_fish directory, then the usual "./configure; make; make install".

Conectiva linux Packages: you can always get the latest one via apt-get in the 'stable' and 'snapshot' repositories

Debian Packages: you can always get the latest one via apt-get in the 'unstable' distribution

Mandrake RPMs (source RPM should work on any RPM-based distribution):

• no up-to-date rpms available

SuSE RPMs: (version unknown - automatically kept up-to-date)

• SuSE 7.0/i386
• SuSE 7.1/i386
• SuSE 7.2/i386
• SuSE 7.3/i386
• SuSE 7.3/PPC

RedHat 7.3 RPMs for KDE3 are available from http://cachalot.ods.org/.

FreeBSD ports also has kio_fish, in the subdir net/kio_fish

Feedback:

Send bug reports, problems, feedback, donations to jwalt-kde@ich.bin.kein.hoschi.de.