<html> <head> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <style></style> <div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">Thanks for all the suggestions.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">I tried "sftp user@hostname" as advised and that did indeed work fine. This set me off on a search for known problems with Filezilla. It seems a lot of Fedora users were having similar problems with Filezilla 3.7.3, which turned out to be the version I was running. For some reason it was disallowing SFTP connections using SSH keys.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">I've installed a later version (3.10.2) from a PPA and everything is now working fine.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br><br>Cheers<br><br>Nige<br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><div><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> ----------------------------------------------------------------------</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> Message: 1</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:24:14 +0000</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> From: Nigel Verity <nigelverity@hotmail.com></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> To: Ubuntu UK Mailing List <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] SFTP Problem</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> Message-ID: <DUB113-W3493AFA31B3D218D070889A3840@phx.gbl></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> Hi</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> I've just installed Xubuntu 15.10 on an Acer netbook. I've installed Xubuntu many times before but not 15.10. It works fine.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> My standard routine is to next install openSSH-server and SSHFS, then start the SSH service.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> The situation now is that I can SSH into the box and I can mount its file system on a remote computer using SSHFS. For all that success, though, I cannot access the box from any other using Filezilla (SFTP). It just hangs then times out. I know it's not a problem with Filezilla per se as all my other laptops can "see" each other through it.</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> Can anybody suggest where the cause may lie? Permissions perhaps?</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> Thanks</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif">> Nige</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font><br></div></div> </div></body> </html>