On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> There is something wrong with kfm's ftp function. It used to be (in mandrake
> 5.3) that I can do:
>
> ftp://myusername@myserver/
>
> And I'd be able to ftp to and fro with impunity - as long as I stuck to my
> user's access rights.
>
> However, in mandrake 6.0, this is broken. I can point kfm to the desired remote
> dir, and I can ftp _from_ that dir but I cannot ftp _to_ the dir. (yes, I have
> read/write rights)
I've also asked about this, with no response. The strange thing is,
that with SuSE and KDE, this function works perfectly. I don't know
why Mandrake broke it.
IglooFTP is a great program, but not as convenient to use as KFM would
be if it worked.
Irv
> I'm writing about this again because the first time I wrote in about it, I only
> got another user's reply - he recommended re-installing. I did. Same problem. I
> even updated to the latest kdebase rpm on /updates
> (so I'm now at kdebase-1.1.1final-11mdk).
>
> Folks at mandrakesoft, could you please fix this. It does not seem like a
> difficult problem (since ftp from remote dir works just not to - with kfm, that
> is) but it's a showstopper for me since I use this kfm feature a lot in my work
> (and play). Or at least, I used to while on Festen :-(
>
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