Connect to FTP with Login > Error "The file is not a directory"

[Philipp Gassmann]

Ubuntu 8.04 & 8.10
Using Nautilus Connect to server, and choosing FTP (with login), entering (domain/IP) address, user, and hitting "Connect".

Prompts for password, and then displays:

"The folder contents could not be displayed"
"Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "/ on [host-address/IP]": The file is not a directory"

To me it seems to be a problem with the directory on the server. the folder for the user is not the root / folder of the server it is: "/d:/www/edvl/domain.ch/html" when i connect with FireFTP or other clients.

So Nautilus tries to connect to domain.ch/ where it has no permission!

When connecting with the ftp> (Terminal) to "domain.ch/" there is also an error "ftp: domain.ch/: Unknown host
Opening "domain.ch" leads to prompting the Username and afterwards the pw

Perhaps Nautilus automatically adds the / at the end of the URL and this causes problems.

Connecting directly to domain.ch/d:/www/edvl/domain.ch/html does not work neither.

Consider:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6468035

BTW: This is my first Bug Report,

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in nautilus.
For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about this feature at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Derek Simkowiak (ubuntu-cool-st)]

Same problem on Ubuntu 12.10

[Josef Hopfgartner (josef-netzagentur)]

I also had this problem.
I've checked seahorse for an existing stored password and found one.
After removing the password, FTP folger worked again.

Same problem next time when password will be changed again.

[Lucy Llewellyn (lucyllewy)]

This is a really old bug and the versions of Ubuntu it references are out of support now. Can you verify whether this is still a problem on Xenial (16.04) or Artful (17.10) and reset the bug to "confirmed" if you can recreate the issue.