On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:07 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: > What I actually meant was; try the command line client, if that works > then perhaps it's your GUI that is the problem.
Ok, I get what you're saying now. It's definitely the GUI (konqueror). When I select 5 files on the remote server and use right mouse button -> "Open with Quanta" to edit I'm guessing it tries to open 5 new ssh connections to the remove server at once rather than using a single connection to transfer all 5 files. Hopefully Jim's suggestion of adjusting the ControlMaster settings will help. I'll be trying that later. Thanks.