Using Konqueror for FTP (was Re: GNOME vs. KDE)

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 13:59, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:57 pm Jason Hayes kindly wrote:
> > Ric is correct,
> >
> > The proper formation of the ftp URL will look like this
> >
> > ftp://yourusername:yourpassword@tigerflag.com  or
> >
> > ftp://yourusername:yourpassword@ftp.tigerflag.com
> >
> > Konqueror then truncates the password and turns it into the format
> > that Ric used.
> >
> > One other thing you can check is that your username may be
> > "username at tigerflag.com". Some hosting accounts require you to add
> > the domain name as well because they host several accounts on one
> > server and need the domain name to figure out what directory they
> > are sending ftp requests to.
> >
> > Jason
>
> From your suggestions I tried every combination I could think of and
> nothing works.
>
> These two got the closest. I got a login prompt, entered my password,
> login went OK, then "Couldn't connect to host tigerflag.com":
>
> ftp://MyUsername:password@tigerflag.com
> ftp://MyUsername:password@ftp.tigerflag.com
>
> These couldn't login at all. "Server replied: 503 Authentication
> failed" for all of them:
>
> ftp://anonymous:password@tigerflag.com
> ftp://anonymous:password@ftp.tigerflag.com
> ftp://username:password@tigerflag.com
> ftp://username:password@ftp.tigerflag.com
>
> Just to be sure, I tried ncftp in a shell:
> ncftp open -u tigerflag.com
> using the same username and password and had no problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Siri Amrit

Siri,

Try leaving out the password like this:

 ftp://yourusername@ftp.tigerflag.com

You should then get a dialog box asking for your password.

Oh, and you can bookmark FTP logins just like any other website.

Dennisk