And actually in the FTP case it could very well be your ftp server is buggy. There is a known bug in pureftpd that causes gvfs not to work properly. The pureftpd developers are planning on fixing it with their next release but there is no telling when the person running your ftp server will actually upgrade if they are in fact using that particular ftp server software. This seems to affect CPanel hosting servers as I have access to one of them.
David,
And actually in the FTP case it could very well be your ftp server is buggy. There is a known bug in pureftpd that causes gvfs not to work properly. The pureftpd developers are planning on fixing it with their next release but there is no telling when the person running your ftp server will actually upgrade if they are in fact using that particular ftp server software. This seems to affect CPanel hosting servers as I have access to one of them.
Chris