Comment 36 for bug 574693

I'm using 11.04 Natty, and I can confirm this bug still happens.

It doesn't matter which particular ftp server is running on the server: wether it's wu-ftpd, pure-ftpd, wzdftpd or vsftpd, the bug happens in virtually exactly the same way. I've tried them all (thinking it might be their fault somehow).

And I can confirm that FileZilla can do bulk file transfers with no problems, connecting to those same servers.

So the problem clearly lies with Nautilus' VFS subsystem, as it handles bulk FTP file transfers.

Please fix this, since fast (i.e. faster than SFTP), easy file transfers on a LAN (where encrypting connection authentication isn't all that crucial, thanks to the protection from the internet by a firewall) are in my opinion *a basic office necessity*.

It would be a pity to have to rely on ancient, sometimes-inconsistent Microsoft-designed SMB networking (ie. creating file shares using nautilus-share), when an FTP daemon + avahi-daemon can do it better and faster, sticking to good-old TCP/IP.