FTP Access - Can you Test a Bug

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#1

Hi All,

Can someone with access to ftp and using Linux test this bug out, it's been hanging and needs a tester, please comment directly on bug with results (if possible), else email me and I'll report on bug.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62981

Thanks!

Warm Regards,
Joel

#2

The bug report is as follows:

Problem description:

Steps to reproduce:
1. Connect ftp file server using nautilus
2. Double-click to open file

Current behavior:
   - Display blank cells as opening by double-click. However, Libreoffice only open that file by using "Open" function in Menu -> File
Expected behavior:
   - Display as opening file in local disk
               Operating System: Ubuntu
Version: 3.5.7.2 release

#3

It would indeed be nice to get a second check with nautilus as well. If nautilus fails but dolphin works then it seems like it's NOTOURBUG.

Anyone with nautilus capable of giving this a go?

Best,
Joel

#4

I was interrupted by a 5 year old that was hit in the face by a fast moving knee.... lots of blood and crying.... until I cleaned up the blood and introduced ice cream into the equation.

I can test with nautilus providing I have an FTP server to which I can connect. So, if you know of an FTP server to which I can connect, I may be able to test using Fedora (assuming that my associations are properly set).

My reading of the bug is as follows:

(1) Connect to the FTP server using Nautilus. I have never done this and did not even know that I could do this, but, my guess is that this makes the file appear to be available from the regular file system.

(2) User then double clicks on the file, which would be using file associations to use LO to open a Calc file.

Something goes awry with the double click, but it works using File | Open and then selecting the file.

#5

Hi Joel,

Can someone with access to ftp and using Linux test this bug out, it's
been hanging and needs a tester, please comment directly on bug with
results (if possible), else email me and I'll report on bug.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62981

I can not test on Ubuntu Ringtail, as I'm suffering from bug 64223, which fails to load any document from a remote FFTP destination in Nautilus, stating that the file is corrupted and then giving me a general IO error.

Alex

#6

Alex, does this work as I expect? namely, you enter the site, and Nautilus makes it look like it is local so that you can use commands such as "ls" or "cp" from a shell? If yes, are able to use "cp" to copy a file?

One of my thoughts is that if Nautilus tries to make the file look local, then LO would not know that the file is not local, so I would be inclined to blame Nautilus.

#7

Depending upon how far you go back this discussion has I think come up before, I may be thinking even back to original Openoffice. I used to have this problem on Konqurer and openSuse.
With Dolphin in the file address bar I type say sftp://serveratwork.com/home/steve/server1/qa/qa/qms/InternalAuditDrafts2011/. This opens a file listing as a normal directory, I can move, copy, delete files as if local. I click on a document and it opens in LO.
If I use the LO File>Open and enter sftp://serveratwork.com/home/steve/server1/qa/qa/qms/InternalAuditDrafts2011/ in the address box, LO opens the directory on the server. If I click on a file LO gives a message "You can only select local files".
So from LO I can't open a remote file but through Dolphin I can.
If I Save As a remote file I see the file I opened is in a local cache.
If I change and then save the file, LO saves and then I get prompted if I want to upload the changes. I am assuming this is by Dolphin.

So although this is not Ubuntu or Nautilus, it may give some insight how the process may work. remote file->Nautilus->cache->LO->cache->Nautilus->remote file. I suspect the issue will be with Nautilus.
Steve