Nautilus and remote servers

[Eric Dunbar]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:49:21 +0100, Eric Feliksik <milouny at gmx.net> wrote:
> volvoguy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to use the Nautilus "Connect to Server" tool to connect to
> > a remote server (outside my LAN). I've tried both FTP and SSH - both
> > of which are running fine on the remote server, and I've tried using
> > both the name of the server and it's IP address. I never get anything
> > but a spinning busy cursor. SHOULD I be able to connect to a remote
> > machine like this or am I just wasting my time?
> 
> I have a similar problem. Although connecting via FTP Login asks for a
> password and immediately logs in, connecting via SSH is less successful.
> It doesn't even always seem to behave the same; but often a popup
> "connecting to <hostname>, you can cancel this operation by clicking
> 'cancel'" appears. Other times an empty nautilus window opens with a
> grey background... And sometimes nothing happens.
> 
> (the indeterministic behaviour *might* be due to caching or something, I
> don't know - but it does confuse me.)
> 
> Any ideas?

Hi Eric (good name :) & volvoguy:

Is it possible that you are using routers or firewalls that are
blocking the ports you need? I discovered the problem with ports
because I was able to do something locally (e.g. ssh from one machine
to another) but wasn't able to do it remotely... though, since you are
initiating the connection within your own LAN, a router should open up
those ports for use?

Eric.