Nautilus cannot handle FTP addresses

adelgado · 2009-07-20 17:04:00

Hello, Forum!

On my Desktop machine, running Ubuntu 9.04, I am able to be able to use the 'Places > Connect to server' option to seamlessly log onto FTP and SSH servers, with Nautilus opening them as normal folders.

Arch is running on my recently-bought Acer Aspire One (a netbook), as I had been looking on installing Arch for some time now.

Unfortunatly, when I type my credentials into the 'Connect to server' options, Nautilus sends me to Firefox, with the following address:

file:///root/.gvfs/ftp as user on server/ (With user and server correctly matching my info.)

It displays, but do not allows me to edit files as if they were local, among other niceties.

After some research on the Wiki and on the Web, I thought the problem was either GVFS or FUSE. I've installed FUSE and set it in /etc/rc.conf, and I think GVFS is installed as Firefox correctly handles the mentioned address.

Am I missing something?

Thank you in advance

quarkup · 2009-07-20 17:58:53

well I don't use gnome long ago (since ubuntu 7.04), but reading the wiki, I found that FUSE should handle it.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNO … ME_Desktop

below "hal" and "fam" daemons; there is FUSE, guess u need it.

JGC · 2009-07-20 18:13:27

Why do you use nautilus as root btw?

adelgado · 2009-07-20 19:01:51

quarkup wrote:

well I don't use gnome long ago (since ubuntu 7.04), but reading the wiki, I found that FUSE should handle it.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNO … ME_Desktop
below "hal" and "fam" daemons; there is FUSE, guess u need it.

Indeed thats what I figured out, from the same Wiki page. But that's just not happening, it calls Firefox... That is, Shiretoko

FUSE is correctly listed in my MODULES=() section, just checked again.

This is really annoying because being able to, for example, edit in GEdit a file that's accessed via an FTP connection and just saving the file without worrying about uploading it again really speeds up my work.

Has anyone ever had this same problem?

adelgado · 2009-07-20 19:19:45

JGC wrote:

Why do you use nautilus as root btw?

That was going to be my next thread, hehe.

The problem is that some things I installed as root aren't correctly appearing under my personal user, which I created through adduser.

While some things are annoying not to have but not strictly necessary, there are things I can't work without, such as my Internet. And I can only use network-manager under root, for some reason.

This probably has to do with the way I set up my wifi. This is my first time with a mobile device, and I don't have any experience with wifi, so, as we say here in Brazil, I was more lost than a blind man in a drive-by shooting.

I do know you shouldn't use your computer as root, as doing this could eat one's first born child and stuff, but right now I just need to work, and as it doesn't directly affects my productivity, I'm coping with it until I finish this project.

If you do have some insight onto why that's happening I'd be glad, though

Arisna · 2009-07-20 19:27:59

If you can't use things like networking, device automounting, optical drives, and other such services except as root, you need to add your user to the appropriate user groups for those items. The wiki should have information about how to do this.

Sjoden · 2009-07-20 20:49:33

Here is the wiki page on groups, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups. You probably want

gpasswd -a user network

Then log out and back in for it to take effect.

Also here is the page on network manager, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager, It might help too. You might want to look in to netcfg as well, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles.

"I was more lost than a blind man in a drive-by shooting."

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Nautilus cannot handle FTP addresses

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