The Grumpy Editor's browser review - a followup
Posted Feb 19, 2004 11:29 UTC (Thu) by
duck (subscriber, #4444)
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The Grumpy Editor's browser review - a followup
Hello,
the really very nice thing about Konqueror as a file manager is the
kio-slave concept.
It allows for example to enter
smb:/ as an URL, and you find yourself browsing your windows network, and
if you set the default username and password correctly, you can even
connect to the shares.
Then open another browser (or split the view), and enter
fish:/username@someSSHserver
and you log into a Server using ssh.
The beauty is that dragging and dropping between the two windows just
works - and this is not limited to these two protocols.
What does that mean?
Well, of course you can mount smb-shares by hand (as root if no fstab
entry exists), and then copy things via scp from the mounted smb-share to
a server running sshd.
But if you administrating a mixed network, the browsing capability of smb
networks is VERY helpful.
Of course you can have an ftp:/ connection as well, or rip directly from
an audio CD to a remote windows share and so on.
The number of supported protocols is amazing.
You can also construct your preferred administrator view (like one ssh
connection, one smb connection and the network overview) and save these
settings to a profile. Then you create a shortcut on your desktop to open
Konqueror with this specific profile.
The annoying thing about konqueror is that it still does not render all
Websites correctly.
So I personally work most of the time with konqueror, and fire up mozilla
if I need it.
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