Kio Slaves has a problem with working over the fish:// protocol on non standard port. The best alternative for Kio is sshfs. You can find information about the installation and configuration of FUSE filesystems on Gentoo Wiki. Usage of sshfs Basic usage: sshfs -pXXXX -o [options] user@remotehost:/remote/path /local/path/ Useful options: -pXXXXX – tells sshfs to use port number XXXXX. -o Ciphers=arcfour – speeds up for the connection. -o ro – read only. ...