No default port and directory in Connect to Server: SSH

[Tero Karvinen]

Connect to Server: SSH asks user for target port and directory. Normal end users don't usually know these.

The port is normally 22/tcp, and nautilus uses this automatically if it is left empty. However, there is no way for user to know that it can be left empty. Suggestion: have text "22" in the port field by default, when the dialog is opened.

Directory to connect to is empty. If left empty, it will connect to root directory "/". In many big systems, user home directories are not directly under "/home/", but are separated to many directories. In practice, this means that user must use command line "ssh" and "pwd" first to find out his home directory before using "Connect to Server".

Suggestion: Connect to user home directory by default if the field is left empty. Have small text under the directory field: "Defaults to your home directory if left empty. "

[Lakin Wecker (lakin)]

Thanks for your bug report.

I'm forwarding this upstream.

[Lakin Wecker (lakin)]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org//show_bug.cgi?id=331583

[Tero Karvinen (karvinen+launchpad)]

Connect to Server dialog is still broken in Hardy Beta.

At least adding the port number 22 to GUI should be quite simple.

Tested with Hardy Beta with this setup: http://www.iki.fi/karvinen/ubuntu_hardy_8.04.html

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm marking this as Fix Released since in Nautilus 3.0 and higher, port number 22 is filled in by default. The folder is filled in as / by default. Changing the default folder is a different bug.