FTP Symlink problem

[Kevin McDowell]

Binary package hint: nautilus

What I am doing: Connecting to my media server (Ubuntu 9.10) from my main machine (Ubuntu 9.10)

When connected to a remote FTP server a symlink to a directory does not work..."This link cannot be used, because its target "/mnt/disk2/xyz" doesn't exist." This link works with other file browsers including my ps3. Also the Nautilus icon for the symlinked directory shows to be a document rather than a folder.

When using Nautilus on the media server locally the symlink works perfectly, and the icon show a folder with a curly arrow like it should.

Thanks for any help offered!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 68f39fe4e2dded2a3aea880bf0baf29a
CheckboxSystem: 8288de49023ad183e24a79f9cef7f5c6
Date: Sat Apr 3 07:18:52 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we can't fix it because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem. We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures.
At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Sebastian Rühl (sebastian-ruehl)]

What kind of information is lacking? I can reproduce this problem...

[Sebastian Rühl (sebastian-ruehl)]

So here is the point:

take a Thecus N2100 NAS.

There is a ftp share with a symlink in it.

Log into the machine via comandline ftp and do ls, do a cd into the symlink, do a ls and you will see everything will work fine.

In contrast to that in nautilus tries to resolve the symlink locally.

[Sebastian Rühl (sebastian-ruehl)]

Maybe this is a regression in result of: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153679