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phrenzy · Dec 20, 2002, 03:51 PM

Damn. It's soooo close - Under 10.2.3 I can finally connect with my sites FTP server - BUT, my home directory is NOT writable for some reason.

I have a kind of weird set up - If I log in from TRANSMIT, I get put in my home directory which has a SIMLINK to my html folder.

When I log in through the finder, the simlink appears but when I click on it it says that it 'can't be found'

If I try to log in to the root directory of the server, I can manually navigate to the folder which the simlink points to (my home html directory) but then it is NOT writable.

Again, it works fine through transmit, windows 2000 FTP AND terminal FTP - so I'm not sure if there's anything I can do here.

Any help is greatly appreciated! thanks!

Emotionally Fragile Luke · Dec 20, 2002, 03:53 PM

The Finders FTP is read only.

Sebastien · Dec 20, 2002, 04:39 PM

Originally posted by Emotionally Fragile Luke:
The Finders FTP is read only.

Then I don't see how Apple can call it a 'feature', given that OS9 could do this without problem.

Yet another reason why Juguar is a compromise and not an upgrade (and an expensive one at that!)

AKcrab · Dec 20, 2002, 04:59 PM

OS 9 let me ftp in the finder? How did I miss that?

ringo · Dec 20, 2002, 04:59 PM

Originally posted by Emotionally Fragile Luke:
The Finders FTP is read only.

Dammit! I was psyched that I could log in but didn't try to upload. *&$*ing useless piece of @*&$!

I wonder why, and if there's a hack.

Sebastien · Dec 20, 2002, 05:17 PM

Originally posted by AKcrab:
OS 9 let me ftp in the finder? How did I miss that?

Through 'Connect to server' in the Apple menu IIRC. You just needed to enter ftp://<server>; it didn't mount it as a drive though, just as a seperate window, but still, more useful than OSX is for that now.

undotwa · Dec 20, 2002, 06:59 PM

Originally posted by Sebastien:

Through 'Connect to server' in the Apple menu IIRC. You just needed to enter ftp://<server>; it didn't mount it as a drive though, just as a seperate window, but still, more useful than OSX is for that now.

That wasn't the Finder.

That was the Network Browser - the most buggy piece of software ever written for Mac OS. I loathe that program.

Sebastien · Dec 21, 2002, 12:03 AM

That's right, it was the Network Browser. It *was* crap, but it still managed to work with FTP without locking up the computer (unlike X)

diamondsw · Dec 21, 2002, 01:00 AM

mmurray · Dec 21, 2002, 04:38 AM

The only improvement for me with
FTP in 10.2.3 is that after I had
to force quit and I did fsck there was
nothing wrong with the disk. This is an improvement over 10.2.2 :-)

Michael

Angus_D · Dec 21, 2002, 08:56 AM

Originally posted by ringo:
Dammit! I was psyched that I could log in but didn't try to upload. *&$*ing useless piece of @*&$!

I wonder why, and if there's a hack.

It's *very* difficult to implement correctly, since FTP isn't quite like a standard filesystem. For example, you can't do writes in the middle of files (you can do reads, though).

Zadian · Dec 21, 2002, 09:42 AM

Originally posted by Sebastien:
That's right, it was the Network Browser. It *was* crap, but it still managed to work with FTP without locking up the computer (unlike X)

It never worked when i tried it and it used to crash and bring down the whole system.

Jonesy · Dec 21, 2002, 02:25 PM

It crashed my PowerBook too on a password protected FTP site. GoLive accesses it without a problem. Safer to just remove the "feature" if it locks up computers this often.