[SOLVED] Caja and FTPS connections

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#1

Hello,

Is it possible to connect to a server via FTPS via the Caja File Manager?

Thanks.

#2

I don’t think the Connect to Server option in Caja where you choose FTP (with login) actually uses FTP/SSL. So probably not, at least not by just using Caja.

You can however, use the package curlftpfs to mount an ftp host as a local directory
http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/

Create the mount point i.e. folder /mnt/host first, of course…

um@um:~$ curlftpfs -o ssl,utf8 ftp://yourserver.net /mnt/host

Then it would show up in Caja as a mounted location under “Network”. And you could always set it to mount automatically at startup as the curlftpfs link explains above.

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#3

Hello,

Thank you for your response.

I’ve installed the curlftpfs package and I’ve tried everything to get this working. I can see from the verbose that it connects successfully over FTP-SSL but if I try and access the mount point via Caja, it just hangs - nothing happens.

Here’s the syntax I’m using:

sudo curlftpfs -v -o ssl,allow_other,cacert=/home/bstones/cert example.com /home/bstones/website

Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks.

Edit: Turns out the server was returning its internal IP in its PASV reply. The -o flag has an option called skip_pasv_ip. This ignores the IP address the server returns in its PASV response.