Need an useful/reliable FTP package with GUI/ SFTP to work...

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#1

Hi All

I am trying to get an useful GUI based FTP package that supports SFTP so I can upload update files to my Drupal7 site.
Preferably KDE based as I am running KDE.

Have currently gFTP but it’s frustrating me (dialogs are not right sized, cannot store server configs easily, etc.). So it’s clunky & hard to diagnose errors, etc. Having troubles with SFTP so this is not helping…
When I ran Kubuntu I was using KFTP (I think?).

Do not want to install bareftp as it pulls in Mono as well. And that’s a lot of overhead for a KDE user…

It needs to be reasonably friendly/robust as I have to upload lots of files with each Drupal update!

Any suggestions please.

Thanks very much

Andy

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#2

Andy,

Filezilla, maybe?

Uwe

#3

When KDE (Plasma 5) then, “Dolphin” – but, the feature is hidden:

  • Select “Network”.
  • Above the window displaying “Bluetooth”; “MTP devices”; “Network”; “Samba shares” and so on, left click to the right of the heading “Network”.
  • A selection area with “remote:/” will appear – use the delete symbol at the right hand end of that area.
  • At the left hand end of the selection area, a drop down list headed by “remote” will appear.
  • Select “sftp”, or whatever else and, proceed.
  • Dolphin currently (KDE Plasma 5) doesn’t seem to integrate with KWallet.

The specific KDE Handbook entry is here: <https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/dolphin/location-bar.html>.
The Dolphin handbook is here: <https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/dolphin/index.html>.

#4

And, I’ve found YAKB (yet another KDE Plasma 5 bug):

  • If, in a Dolphin session, the sftp connection is selected again, it doesn’t reconnect – it hangs.
  • If, Dolphin is closed and restarted, everything is OK – the sftp connection can be re-established.

The only glimmer on the horizon is, the password to login to the remote machine seems to be stored – somewhere – but, it ain’t in KWallet.
Investigation continues . . .

#5

Am Tue, 03 Jan 2017 10:20:48 GMT
schrieb Uwe Buckesfeld <u.buckesfeld@web.de>:

> Filezilla, maybe?

+1

For Mozilla-based browsers there is this extension called “fireftp”, which
offers most of the functionality of filezilla in your web browser.

As long as you don’t need different proxy settings for different hosts you want
to connect to, fireftp might be sufficient for your needs.

AK

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
(R.J. Hanlon)

#6

Besides Filezilla, Midnight Commander(which has the added benefit which does not rely on Desktop graphical technologies) have been long recommended by many.

TSU

#7

Am Tue, 03 Jan 2017 15:46:02 GMT
schrieb tsu2 <tsu2@no-mx.forums.microfocus.com>:

> Besides Filezilla, Midnight Commander(which has the added benefit which
> does not rely on Desktop graphical technologies) have been long
> recommended by many.

Normally yes, but at the moment (or to be precise for nearly 3 years) that
recommendation is not a feasible one.

  1. Using fish protocol has been disabled due to some unfixed bugs in
    default openSUSE packages for several releases now.

from spec:

%configure
–localstatedir=/var/lib
–enable-charset
–enable-vfs-smb --with-smb-configdir=%{_sysconfdir}/samba
–disable-vfs-fish

http://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3128

from changes:

(that entry is from march 2014!)

I am running a patched version on my machines to actually have fish available,
but there are still some unresolved issues with files containing special
characters and funny enough copying will only fail in
one direction

  1. sftp is still available but quite buggy, for example you will get an error
    message on every copy (or at least the first file you want to transfer
    in on copying action) although it succeeds in the end.

https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3406

https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3749

AK

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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
(R.J. Hanlon)

#8

You can just put the ftp URL in Dolphin’s places Makes the FTP site more or less part of the file system.

#9

What about the KDE(4) Konqueror in “Midnight Commander” mode?
OK, it’s a KDE4 Plasma application and, I haven’t discovered (yet) where it’s possible to store the sftp location/password pair – and, it doesn’t seem to want to store the location/password pair by default in KWallet.
But, in “Midnight Commander” mode, it really seems to be the KDE “Bee’s knees” (old fashioned phrase for a “Hit”).

#10

Yes, querying for bugs using Google conveniently displays most recent modified first, and it looks like your specified bug <may> be close to solution
Using Google search terms for MC… “midnight commander sftp bug”

Using similar Google search terms for Filezilla doesn’t seem to return any current issues… “filezilla sftp bug”

TSU