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

[Gilles Gravier]

Vincent,

Just to illustrate... if I open ftp://*MyUser:MyPassword*@10.10.10.10/
and then I actually enter a password (which of course gets rejected)
this is what the log entry looks like on proftpd :

Sep 21 17:28:01 server proftpd[30984] server
(bluetink[::ffff:10.10.10.50]): FTP session opened.
Sep 21 17:28:09 server proftpd[30984] server
(bluetink[::ffff:10.10.10.50]): no such user '*MyUser:MyPassword*'
Sep 21 17:28:09 server proftpd[30984] server
(bluetink[::ffff:10.10.10.50]): USER *MyUser:MyPassword*: no such user
found from bluetink [::ffff:10.10.10.50] to ::ffff:10.10.10.10:21
Sep 21 17:28:11 server proftpd[30984] server
(bluetink[::ffff:10.10.10.50]): FTP session closed.

Gilles.


Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Vincent,
>
> I've looked at the log files on my system (my Ubuntu server runs proftpd).
>
> If, in Nautilus, you open the location
> "ftp://user:password@server/"... what is actually done is that the ftp
> session is opened on the server, indeed, but the user name that is
> sent is "user:password"... not "user".
>
> So if your user "USER" has a password "PASSWORD"... when you do open
> "ftp://USER:PASSWORD@x.x:x:x/" then the ftp server at x.x.x.x asks you
> for the passord of the user "USER:PASSWORD". Since there is no user
> called "USER:PASSWORD" (at least I assume this is the case on your
> system) then of course, whatever password you type is always
> incorrect, and the server keeps re-asking for a password, so Nautilus
> keeps prompting you again.
>
> My intuition is that either Nautilus doesn't accept "user:password"
> syntax in FTP for security reasons... or there may be a flag to set to
> enable it... or this is a bug, in Nautilus.
>
> Gilles
>
> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:41:00 +0300
>> "Mario Spinthiras" <spinthiras.mario at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Have you tried launching nautilus from a shell with verbose to see for the
>>> error there?
>>>     
>>
>> Yes, that's the first thing I tried, but according to its man page,
>> Nautilus does NOT have a verbose/debug mode at all ! :-/
>>
>> I tried -v and --verbose just in case, but indeed it does not work.
>>
>> --
>> Vince
>>
>>   
>
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