ftp kioslave
January 8th, 2007 by Ivan
One of the best features of KDE is it’s kioslaves that let you access network and other resources right from konqueror, from the ALT+F2 Run dialog, or even better from your favourite KDE application.
Tonight I took a closer look at the ftp kioslave, I wanted to see if I could configure a maximum number of connections to use, as it opens multiple connections to the server and the server I want to use only accepts 3 concurrent connections. Unfortunately I didn’t find out how to achieve that goal, but I did find the following config options for it, which I’m making a note of here for my own reference and in case you find it useful. The file to edit is ~/.kde/share/config/kio_ftprc, if it doesn’t exist (and it probably doesn’t) you’ll need to create it.
To disable passive mode for the site example.com:
[example.com]
DisablePassiveMode=true
To do this for all sites not just example.com use [] instead of [example.com]
To force text mode, rather than binary mode transfers for the site example.com:
[example.com]
textmode=true
To login to a site automatically:
[example.com]
EnableAutoLogin=true
autoLoginUser=fred
autoLoginPass=secret
If anyone knows how to limit the number of concurrent connections I’d love to hear from you.
