Nautilus ftp: permission denied while needlessly walking directory path

[Andrewbootlegger]

Posted this on the ubuntu forums and was advised to repost here.

Tried connecting to an FTP server I use with a team of software developers. Upon connecting, I got: Nautilus cannot display "ftp://<email address hidden>:21/home/user". I am denied access to the homes directory, but can use my directory. According to a capture from wireshark, Nautilus tries to CWD through each directory in the path. For example:

cd /home
cd user

This generates an error:

550 /home: Permission denied.

Nautilus then disconnects.

I tried leaving the directory option blank, but Nautilus immediately CWDs to the root directory (ordinarily, I'm dropped in my home dir).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu are you using?

[Andrewbootlegger (andrewbootlegger)]

Sorry, forgot the basics. 7.10, Gutsy.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

would be a gnome-vfs issue, it's not likely to be changed though since gvfs is used now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in hardy or intrepid?

[Andrewbootlegger (andrewbootlegger)]

I've since upgraded to Hardy and, yes, I still get the same error.

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> could you try if that's still an issue in hardy or intrepid?
>
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> Nautilus ftp: permission denied
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206966
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> Status in "gnome-vfs" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Posted this on the ubuntu forums and was advised to repost here.
>
> Tried connecting to an FTP server I use with a team of software developers.
> Upon connecting, I got: Nautilus cannot display "ftp://user@
> site.com:21/home/user". I am denied access to the homes directory, but can
> use my directory. According to a capture from wireshark, Nautilus tries to
> CWD through each directory in the path. For example:
>
> cd /home
> cd user
>
> This generates an error:
>
> 550 /home: Permission denied.
>
> Nautilus then disconnects.
>
> I tried leaving the directory option blank, but Nautilus immediately CWDs
> to the root directory (ordinarily, I'm dropped in my home dir).
>

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Have a nice day.
Andrew Burns

[hasan (hassanidin)]

On Ubuntu 9.10, I am getting the same error trying to log into a Mac Leopard computer. Again the error seems to be that I do not have permissions to access all the files that Nautilus is parsing.

[frédéric (ppolkf)]

Was OK in jaunty; affects me in Karmic.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

While the cwd to /home is not needed and should be avoided, this also seems to be a bug in the FTP server. In order to CWD to /home/user you must have execute permission in /home, which is also what should be needed to CWD to /home. Without read permission you can't LIST the /home directory, but you should be able to CWD there.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Also you might try changing the path to /~/ instead of /home/user/.