bug#4226: dired FTP trouble

bug#4226: dired FTP trouble

[Michael Albinus]

frances frederic <frances_frederic@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Hello

Hi,

> I've just dowloaded emacs 23 for windows and I can't acces to remote server via dired-ftp
>
> when I do 
>
> M-x dired
> /ftp:ffrances@server:~/ 
> or 
> /ffrances@server:~/ 
>
> it seems not working

What does the *ftp ...* buffer show?

> but in shell
> M-x shell
> and then ftp ffrances@server
>
> it's ok (exept that prompt is strange and ask me for password before username)

That could be a problem for ange-ftp, indeed. Could you access this FTP
server with an older Emacs version?

Best regards, Michael.

bug#4226: Re : bug#4226: dired FTP trouble

[frances frederic]

----- Message d'origine ----
De : Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
À : frances frederic <frances_frederic@yahoo.fr>
Cc : 4226@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Envoyé le : Vendredi, 21 Août 2009, 16h10mn 29s
Objet : Re: bug#4226: dired FTP trouble

frances frederic <frances_frederic@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Hello

Hi,

> I've just dowloaded emacs 23 for windows and I can't acces to remote server via dired-ftp
>
> when I do 
>
> M-x dired
> /ftp:ffrances@server:~/ 
> or 
> /ffrances@server:~/ 
>
> it seems not working

What does the *ftp ...* buffer show?

When I start it shows the following

help foo
?Invalid help command foo
open xxxx
open xxxx
Connected to xxxx..xxxx.com.
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5)

and when I retry

220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5)
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5)
?Invalid command


get ~ NUL
get ~ NUL
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
/usr/bin/ftp: bind: Address already in use
get ~ NUL
get ~ NUL
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
pwd
pwd
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
pwd
pwd
530 Please login with USER and PASS.



> but in shell
> M-x shell
> and then ftp ffrances@server
>
> it's ok (exept that prompt is strange and ask me for password before username)

That could be a problem for ange-ftp, indeed. Could you access this FTP
server with an older Emacs version?

The other version I have actually is a 21.3 under cygwin and it can access to ftp server normally.

I remember that with emacs 21 I used an ftp specific program for win32, 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/contrib/ftp-for-win32.zip 
do you think this can solve my problem? 



Best regards, Michael.

bug#4226: Re : bug#4226: dired FTP trouble

[Michael Albinus]

frances frederic <frances_frederic@yahoo.fr> writes:

> I remember that with emacs 21 I used an ftp specific program for win32, 
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/contrib/ftp-for-win32.zip 
> do you think this can solve my problem? 

I do not use W32 myself, but there are problem reports about its native
ftp client. So you shall use an alternative ftp program, indeed.

See also the discussion at
<http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=4042>

Best regards, Michael.

bug#4226: Re : bug#4226: Re : bug#4226: dired FTP trouble

[frances frederic]

ok thanks for your help.




----- Message d'origine ----
De : Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
À : Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>; 4226@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc : frances frederic <frances_frederic@yahoo.fr>
Envoyé le : Samedi, 22 Août 2009, 2h46mn 58s
Objet : Re: bug#4226: Re : bug#4226: dired FTP trouble

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Michael Albinus<michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
> frances frederic <frances_frederic@yahoo.fr> writes:
>
>> I remember that with emacs 21 I used an ftp specific program for win32,
>> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/contrib/ftp-for-win32.zip
>> do you think this can solve my problem?
>
> I do not use W32 myself, but there are problem reports about its native
> ftp client. So you shall use an alternative ftp program, indeed.
>
> See also the discussion at
> <http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=4042>
>
> Best regards, Michael.


Long ago I pointed out that I had trouble with the w32 native ftp
client. I switched to the alternate ftp client but I also had some
problems with that program.

However since then I distribute the alternate client as part of
Emacs+EmacsW32 distribution. To get it to work for me I think I made
some patches to ange-ftp.el which I include in the distribution.

They are still there and if someone wants to test them and see if they
perhaps should be added some way to Emacs it would be good.