NetBox — SFTP/SCP/FTP/FTPS/WebDAV client

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NetBox — FTP/SFTP/WebDAV client

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Hi to all, I am a new Far user (but I had used Norton Commander 3.0 very extensively to the late nineties). Totally love the program and the plugins.

I recently tried to use ftp but noticed it doesn't support unicode names and doesn't connect to FTPS. So I tried the NetBox plugin which DOES support unicode names, but I have a problem with FTPS.

When I try to connect to my FTPS server I have the following output:

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Certificate verification error: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certifica
                                        Continue anyway?
Which is normal and I click Yes. However I then get the following message:

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        Unable to establish connection with host
                       ftps://seth
 FTP: couldn't retrieve (RETR failed) the specified file
and I cannot continue. At the same time my server produces the following:

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(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - (not logged in) (192.168.x.x)> Connected, sending welcome message...
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - (not logged in) (192.168.x.x)> 220 FileZilla Server version 0.9.39 beta
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - (not logged in) (192.168.x.x)> SSL connection established
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - (not logged in) (192.168.x.x)> USER user
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - (not logged in) (192.168.x.x)> 331 Password required for user
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - (not logged in) (192.168.x.x)> PASS *******
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> 230 Logged on
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> PBSZ 0
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> 200 PBSZ=0
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> PROT C
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> 534 This server requires an encrypted data connection with PROT P
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> PWD
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> 257 "/" is current directory.
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> EPSV
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||3390|)
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> TYPE A
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> 200 Type set to A
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> LIST
(000081)2011-09-13 12:31:08 - user (192.168.x.x)> 521 PROT P required
However I can connect without problems using Filezilla.

Am I missing something here ?

Thanks for your time. Also, please direct me to where I can donate a few euros to support the Far and Netbox developers.
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Re: NetBox — FTP/SFTP/WebDAV client

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Here's the discussion of the NetBox plugin in Russian. You may wish to post there a link to this topic. I believe the author knows English enough.
axonis wrote:please direct me to where I can donate a few euros to support the Far and Netbox developers.
AFAIK, there's no such mechanism. Though you can contact t-rex directly to try to participate in hosting fees.
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Current Netbox developer - ice_scream.
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Post by Michael Lukashov »

axonis wrote:Hi to all, I am a new Far user (but I had used Norton Commander 3.0 very extensively to the late nineties). Totally love the program and the plugins.

I recently tried to use ftp but noticed it doesn't support unicode names and doesn't connect to FTPS. So I tried the NetBox plugin which DOES support unicode names, but I have a problem with FTPS.

When I try to connect to my FTPS server I have the following output:

However I can connect without problems using Filezilla.

Am I missing something here ?
Hi.

Thanks for your bug report.

I was able to reproduce error, but need some more time to fix this.
However, you still can use NetBox if you change your Filezilla FTPS server options for a while.
Filezilla server options -> SSL/TLS settings -> Force PROT P to encrypt file transfers in SSL/TLS mode - uncheck this option
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Thanks very much -- and the workaround does the job temporarily.

Feature request: Provide the option to save a certificate in order to avoid certificate warnings in future sessions.

Also, the message

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    return "Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA "
      "certificates";
Could be truncated in order to fit to a normal sized window (mine is set at 110 chars wide and some of the message was cut, so I think some truncation must be necessary).
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Which keyfile formats are supported by NetBox? I tried to move my WinSCP plugin configuration to NetBox, but I am getting a "Unable to extract public key from private key file" error. As far as I can tell, both keys are provided in the keyfile (Putty user key file with no encryption).
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When I try to resume a file on a SFTP server (File exists. Overwrite? -> Append. Append to the end? -> No.) I get an error "Not implemented. Code: 300". Is it a limitation of NetBox or of the server? Is there anything I can do to remove this limitation?
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pepak wrote:When I try to resume a file on a SFTP server (File exists. Overwrite? -> Append. Append to the end? -> No.) I get an error "Not implemented. Code: 300". Is it a limitation of NetBox or of the server? Is there anything I can do to remove this limitation?
This error means that some function was not implemented in NetBox. Will fix in next version soon.
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Thank you very much! I find myself in need of this function because since the 1st I am trying to upload my 6GB backup file to a remote site and the connection keeps dropping me at 85-95 %. (The connection drop is caused by my provider, not NetBox.)
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pepak wrote:Thank you very much! I find myself in need of this function because since the 1st I am trying to upload my 6GB backup file to a remote site and the connection keeps dropping me at 85-95 %. (The connection drop is caused by my provider, not NetBox.)
you may try new test version https://github.com/downloads/michaelluk ... 64_test.7z
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It seems to work fine. I tried to upload a smaller test file, aborted it in the middle, then tried to resume. The resume started OK, apparently (as shown by the progress indicator), eventually finished and when I downloaded the resumed file and compared it to the original, they matched. I will need to test with a >4GB file eventually, but the functionality seems to work fine for smaller files.

If you find time for that, though, it might be a good idea to provide a "Resume" button in the Overwrite dialog. While the extra dialog after "Append" works, it's not very intuitive. I can live with it, if you don't care to provide an extra button.

Anyway, thanks a lot for this update!
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Link not working
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axonis wrote:Link not working
That's because it is temporary test version.
All fresh versions are here: https://github.com/michaellukashov/Far-NetBox/downloads
(as you can guess yourself)
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