ccscmhne Posted February 16, 2005 Posted February 16, 2005 Using Gftp software to navigate the subdirectories on the totalchoicehosting server, I can not click on the up arrow, "..", to move up one level. I am forced to delete or use the dowm down box to move up one level. example: /public_html/theme/javascript remove javascript to move up /public_html/theme Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted February 16, 2005 Posted February 16, 2005 I'm not sure what you are aksing but welcome to the forums. I will move this to a better suited forum to get answered. Quote
borfast Posted February 16, 2005 Posted February 16, 2005 ccscmhne, first of all, welcome to the family! As for your problem with gFTP, I have the exact same problem. Not sure what it can be, I never examined the communications between my computer and the server but I guess I'll have to do that some time. I'll use Ethereal to sniff the FTP protocol between TCH and my computer and I'll try to see what's going on. I'll do the same with the command line FTP and see what's the difference. I'll let you know if I find something. Quote
HCSuperStores Posted February 16, 2005 Posted February 16, 2005 I'm on Mandrake and I use gFTP for all my FTP needs. Never had this problem. Sounds like FC3 might be causing an issue. Any more thoughts on this? Experiments? Quote
borfast Posted February 17, 2005 Posted February 17, 2005 HC, can I ask you a favour? Could you capture just the FTP traffic with Ethereal, save the results in a file and send it to me, so I can see if there are any differences between the way our gFTP programs talk to the TCH servers? I'll tell you how to do it, in case you never used Ethereal. It's pretty easy to use (assuming you have it installed). You'll have to use it as root, otherwise you won't have all the capabilities available. First of all, open gFTP and login to your TCH account, so the username and password don't get recorded by Ethereal. Then launch Ethereal, open the "Capture" menu click "Start...". Then, on the "Capture Options" window, write "host ****** and tcp port 21" (the 'and' too), replacing ****** with the domain name you'll be connecting to. Check both the "Update list of packages in real time" and "Enable network name resolution" options. Click the "OK" button. A new window will open, telling you how many packets have been captured. You can ignore it, minimize it, put ir in the background, whatever... Next, browse into a folder in gFTP and go back up to the. Disconnect. Bring the small ethereal window back to the front and press the "Stop" button. Finally, in the main Ethereal window, go to "File -> Save As...", select "All packets" under "Packet Range" and "libpcap" as the file type. E-mail me the resulting file, so I can compare it with the one I have from my version of gFTP and, hopefully, understand why Fedora's gFTP doesn't work Quote
borfast Posted February 17, 2005 Posted February 17, 2005 Well, it seems this is a problem with gFTP 2.0.17. HC (to whom I thank for the time and patience to test this with me ) has 2.0.16 running on his Mandrake system and it works fine, so we wondered if it was a problem with my version. I went to the gFTP site to download 2.0.16, try it on my system and, eventually, check out the source code to see the differences. Turns out that gFTP 2.0.18 has already been released, so I downloaded it and, after making a few changes to the .spec file to make it work with FC3, I've built an RPM with which I upgraded my gFTP version and now it works just fine It's also much faster than the previous version... I still don't understand what kind of optimizations Red Hat does to their packages that makes them so slow... ccscmhne, if you want I can send you the RPM. Just let me know and I'll e-mail it to you (it's just under 1 MB). Quote
HCSuperStores Posted February 17, 2005 Posted February 17, 2005 Hey Raul! Glad to here the great news! Working with you on this was a fun distraction and learned something new in the process that I will use in the future ... you know what I'm talking about. I'll be sure to skip over the 2.0.17 for sure myself. That's an annoying little bug! Cheers! Quote
ccscmhne Posted February 17, 2005 Author Posted February 17, 2005 (edited) Well, it seems this is a problem with gFTP 2.0.17. HC (to whom I thank for the time and patience to test this with me ) has 2.0.16 running on his Mandrake system and it works fine, so we wondered if it was a problem with my version. I went to the gFTP site to download 2.0.16, try it on my system and, eventually, check out the source code to see the differences. Turns out that gFTP 2.0.18 has already been released, so I downloaded it and, after making a few changes to the .spec file to make it work with FC3, I've built an RPM with which I upgraded my gFTP version and now it works just fine It's also much faster than the previous version... I still don't understand what kind of optimizations Red Hat does to their packages that makes them so slow... ccscmhne, if you want I can send you the RPM. Just let me know and I'll e-mail it to you (it's just under 1 MB). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would love tho have your rpm version for Gftp. I belong to the Columbus Computer Society user group in Columbus Ohio. We have a large Linux group and I will share the rpm file with everyone. there is other users with the same problem since I send most users to this site. send to email and attachment to: webmaster at ccscmh.org Thanks big time. Edit: I changed your email address to stop spiders from picking it up Edited February 17, 2005 by TCH-Bruce Quote
borfast Posted February 18, 2005 Posted February 18, 2005 Sending the e-mail right now. Let me know if it works for you Quote
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