Nautilus: fails to connect to FTP server without explanation: how to debug ?!

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to connect to an FTP server with Nautilus.
>
> I have all the correct information to do it: server address, login and
> password. Furthermore, I can connect just fine using dedicated FTP
> programs like gFTP, or even simply a web browser (Epiphany).
> But Nautilus gives me an error message saying it failed to connect to
> the host... I tried starting Nautilus from the command line, but it
> doens't print any error (or else) message following the failure to
> connect. Looked at the Nautiluse man page, hoping there would be somw
> swithches to enable debugging info to be printed, but no such option is
> available sadly...
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Regards,

Hi Vince,

Try "gnome-open ftp://your.ftp.site"...

Chris