Re: tramp/ange-ftp: error in creation of dir's

[Martin Steffen <msteffen@ifi.uio.no>]

Hi.
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:


    >> expect). Getting into the displayed directory /Volume_1 in the dired
    >> gets me there, as exected. The next command, the attempted creation
    >> of "testdir", fails.  So I can browse fine, but creating directories
    >> does not work (the same happens when trying to delete an empty
    >> directory).

    Michael> OK. Could you, please, run a native test from the command
    Michael> line:

So, here is the log of the commands, you
gave:

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[msteffen@localhost ~]$ ftp 192.168.1.4
Connected to 192.168.1.4 (192.168.1.4).
220 sputstore FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(52) Tue Jan 2 14:13:26 CST 2007) ready.
Name (192.168.1.4:msteffen): 
331 Password required for msteffen.
Password:
230-Welcome to my FTP site.
230-Now is the time ==> Tue Nov 20 21:57:17 2007
230-The host name is sputstore
230-You are msteffen
230-There are 1 person in my site, now.
230-
230-
230 User msteffen logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> hash
Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark).
ftp> pwd
257 "/" is current directory.
ftp> cd /
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -al
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,4,216,113)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing.
total 14
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root     1024 Nov 19  2007 .
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root     1024 Nov 19  2007 ..
drwxrwxrwx   8 root root     4096 Nov 19 20:12 Volume_1
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     1024 Feb 14  2007 web_page
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quote mdtm /
550 /mnt: not a plain file.
ftp> cd /Volume_1
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls -al
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,4,67,17)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing.
total 66
drwxrwxrwx   8 root root     4096 Nov 19  2007 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root     1024 Nov 19  2007 ..
drwxrwxrwx   2 root root     4096 Nov 17  2007 .lpd
drwxrwxrwx   4 root root     4096 Nov 19  2007 Music
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root root        2 Nov 18  2007 XXX
drwxrwxrwx   3 root root     4096 Nov 17  2007 sputnik
drwxrwxrwx   2 root root     4096 Nov 19  2007 testdir
drwxrwxrwx   2 root root     4096 Nov 18  2007 testfolder
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quote mdtm /Volume_1/
550 /Volume_1: No such file or directory.
ftp> mkdir /Volume_1/testdir
550 /Volume_1/testdir: No such file or directory.
ftp> bye
221-You have transferred 0 bytes in 0 files.
221-Total traffic for this session was 986 bytes in 0 transfers.
221-Thank you for using the FTP service on sputstore.
221 Goodbye.
[msteffen@localhost ~]$ 
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    Michael> # ftp 192.164.1.4



    ftp> pwd
    >> 257 "/Volume_1" is current directory.
    ftp> mkdir testdir
    >> 257 "/mnt/HD_a2/testdir" new directory created.

yes, that looks strange.

    Michael> Looks like "/Volume_1" is a link or so, because "testdir" has
    Michael> been created on another physical location.


    Michael> Ah. Samba on FAT32 likely. This could explain why the smb
    Michael> based copy results in shortened file names.

Well, strangely enough, the DNS-323 is BSD-based, as I heared

    Michael> Off topic: looks like it is possible to run native Linux on a
    Michael> D-Link DNS-323. I did something similar with my Linksys NSLU2,
    Michael> and I'm happy with it.

[Off topic as well: Yes, I have seen that. Not sure whether I dare to do
that at the current stage.... Actually, the thing works fine (for instance
it connected in a blink to my noxon internet radio via UNpP AV). The only
thing I need to find out a decent way of using it for backups]

cheers, Martin