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M. J. Fromberger replied on October 15, 2008 00:21 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

Michaelangela, even if you can't provide us a test account, what would be super helpful is if you could e-mail us the name of the FTP host you are connecting to at <support@magnetk.com>. Even without a login name or password, I could at least do some preliminary testing, and that would be great.

A comment on the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

Unfortunately I am not authorized to provide a temp login. :-( However, if the error I reported is fixed that's a good start. My only concern is that with this particular host, *no* software has been able to log in with FTPS as it just hangs. Is there a pref anywhere that I could change for this host? I'll try out that next release as soon it's available as a beta. :-) – michaelangela, on October 15, 2008 00:03

M. J. Fromberger replied on October 14, 2008 23:32 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

Right now, ExpanDrive's FTPFS always attempts to first establish an FTPS connection, and if the server rejects the secure connection, it falls back to using an insecure session. If you have an FTP host where this does not work, I would love to get a temporary guest account on it, so I can test against it.

We don't currently provide any way to explicitly disable the attempt at a secure connection from the UI. Meanwhile, however, I fixed the error you're showing for the next release. Thanks for the report.

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Where do the logs show up? I'm not seeing anything in console... – erutan, on October 14, 2008 22:34

michaelangela replied on October 14, 2008 21:48 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

Hi there just an update with the new 1.3.1 logging:

EXPANDRIVE_AUTH_PASSWORD:user^domain.tld@domain.tld
2008-10-14 14:39:40.766 ExpanDrive[3139] Traceback (most recent call last):
2008-10-14 14:39:40.766 ExpanDrive[3139] File "/expandrive/fs/ftpfs/Driver.py", line 257, in <module>
File "/expandrive/fs/ftpfs/Driver.py", line 243, in main
File "/expandrive/fs/ftpfs/Driver.py", line 189, in start_ftpfs
2008-10-14 14:39:40.767 ExpanDrive[3139] File "/expandrive/fs/ftpfs/Driver.py", line 73, in test_connection
2008-10-14 14:39:40.767 ExpanDrive[3139] File "/expandrive/fs/ftpfs/FTPFS.py", line 277, in test_connection
2008-10-14 14:39:40.767 ExpanDrive[3139] File "/expandrive/fs/ftpfs/FTPFS.py", line 263, in get_ftp_client
2008-10-14 14:39:40.767 ExpanDrive[3139] File "/expandrive/fs/ftpfs/FTPFS.py", line 30, in login
2008-10-14 14:39:40.767 ExpanDrive[3139] File "/expandrive/fs/ftpfs/mftplib.py", line 446, in login
2008-10-14 14:39:40.768 ExpanDrive[3139] IndexError: tuple index out of range

It's a media temple account that while the server itself reports it supports FTPS, I have not yet found a client yet that could successfully login with FTPS to this host (including Transit). So I am hoping I can just disable the attempt to use FTPS for the host and have an option to disable FTPS and just use FTP for those hosts. Any thoughts?

Logging is good. :-)</module>

A comment on the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

nigel, would it be possible to get a temporary test login emailed to support@magnetk.com? – Jeff Mancuso, on October 09, 2008 20:23

nigel replied on October 09, 2008 20:19 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

Downloaded the 1.3 beta this morning, but can't get it to work with my ISPs FTP. When I connect, I get an initial green dot icon to the right of the drive name, but the drive name doesn't appear in Finder. If I right-click and Open in Finder, I get a Finder window with an entry for the drive but no files in the drive. In console I see this message:

Oct 9 13:18:32 macmini KernelEventAgent[34]: tid 00000000 received VQ_DEAD event (32)

Any thoughts on how to get this working?

A comment on the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

Sorry I didn't mention that's the version I am running! Just thinking if there is a way to disable TLS if I know a host doesn't cooperate with it. – michaelangela, on October 09, 2008 18:36

Jon Shea replied on October 09, 2008 18:34 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

Plain FTP is available in ExpanDrive as of version 1.3. You can download the latest version of ExpanDrive at http://magnetk.com/expandrive

michaelangela replied on October 09, 2008 16:19 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

I don't have the authority to make new logins on that host. :-(
This is from the Welcome message (through Transmit's transcript):

Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS]
Connected to domain.tld.
Cmd: AUTH TLS

And then it hangs. Of course the non TLS just goes straight to logging in the user after getting the connected.

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Possible to get a test login at support@magnetk.com and we'll fix up whatever needs to be fixed? – Jeff Mancuso, on October 09, 2008 16:08

michaelangela replied on October 09, 2008 16:05 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

Tried out the new beta this morning. After some debugging, it appears that media temple accepts AUTH TLS but it just hangs after that. I confirmed with Transmit that FTP is fine, but FTP/TLS just hangs. Is it possible to disable TLS for a host so it doesn't try that one?

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I wanted to check back to see what kind of server you're connecting to?
Thanks! – Jeff Mancuso, on October 06, 2008 15:15

erutan replied on October 04, 2008 00:09 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

Same situation as AngryAnt I think. It loads in finder ok (e.g. logs in)... but it looks empty/blank.

The first time i tried DCing from the server it gave me a -36 error, I had to quit/restart expandrive. This time it was able to DC cleanly. Console didn't throw anything related to the app (this time).

All my real stuff is sftp already, this is a friends ftp server running Serv-U... probably a version or two old??

Jeff Mancuso replied on October 03, 2008 12:05 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

You can check in Console.app to see if there is any output. Also, what exactly do you mean by "blank window" ?

Also, can you provide a bit more info about the FTP server you're connecting to?

Thanks

AngryAnt replied on October 03, 2008 08:14 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

When I'm trying to connect to my ftp using ExpanDrive, I'm just getting a blank window. Is there any sort of log file or debug info which I could email you?

Jon Shea replied on October 03, 2008 00:02 to the question "Plain FTP support" in ExpanDrive:

The plain ftp beta is online now. Download it at http://magnetk.com/expandrive/ExpanDr...

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currently only for the mac – Jeff Mancuso, on August 26, 2008 03:31