Nautilus and remote servers

[Eric Feliksik]

Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:49:21 +0100, Eric Feliksik <milouny at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>>I have a similar problem. Although connecting via FTP Login asks for a
>>password and immediately logs in, connecting via SSH is less successful.
>>It doesn't even always seem to behave the same; but often a popup
>>"connecting to <hostname>, you can cancel this operation by clicking
>>'cancel'" appears. Other times an empty nautilus window opens with a
>>grey background... And sometimes nothing happens.
>>
>> (...)
>>
>>Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Hi Eric (good name :) & volvoguy:
> 
> Is it possible that you are using routers or firewalls that are
> blocking the ports you need? I discovered the problem with ports
> because I was able to do something locally (e.g. ssh from one machine
> to another) but wasn't able to do it remotely... though, since you are
> initiating the connection within your own LAN, a router should open up
> those ports for use?
> 
> Eric.
> 
> 

It *could* be (I'm behind triple NAT - yeah, I know it's weird) but 
using ftp or ssh with command line causes no problem at all. Plus, I 
found it DOES work... sometimes. I saw that when I choosed "unmount" in 
the network menu, and the host disappeard, it was there again after 
closing and re-opening the network window. That's weird.