Major problem with FTPMount and Update 3

I just tried to use FTPMount (I use it frequently) and no matter what I try to do with it, I get recoverable alert 7000004.

Can anybody else reproduce this?

This error is apparently:
7000004 Unexpected packet received

So might be easy to fix but appears to be related to the new dos.library (which has other reported problems).

As the AOS4 FTPMount maintainer I can tell you that FTPMount is doing all sort of strange things, so the culprit is probably not dos.library but rather FTPMount.
I'd like to improve that by releasing a new version but I'm stuck with a stupid bug triggering at startup which I can't track down for months.

Anyway I'll try to see if I can find the origin of this alert.

PS: you might want to contact ChrishH as he also seems to be a regular user of FTPMount.

I use FTPMount on Update 3 without problems. Not sure what I can say to help.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Hello,

Now with update3, the debug is maybe more easy because now maybe tools like gdb or the alkfill one work now ?

@abalaban

If it helps, it comes up after clicking OK to the "FTPMount will use your USERNAME@DOMAIN for anonymous logins because of blah blah blah" message, and before the "Connecting to..." window.

I've just reverted back to update 2 dos.library and FTPMount works with that (disk access is also much quicker). Hope you can find a fix, if you need me to test please let me know.

FTPmount is working fine for me. I have it in my WBSTartup folder, and for the hosts I connect to, the username and passwords are in the tool-types for each host. No crashes or problems transferring files on a Sam440 Flex.

I have it in DOSDrivers with Activate=0, maybe that is the difference?

@Chris
I have nothing FTP-related in Sys:Devs/DOSDrivers ! So now I am curious what you have there. Perhaps it is installed wrong, which is why it crashes?

For me everything in FTPMountDir folder (not on Sys: at all), and it is 'loaded' by having the FTP mount icon in the WBStartup. This has ACTIVATE=0 in the tooltypes for me too.

If I change it to Activate=1 it works.

Activate=1 mounts it immediately, whereas Activate=0 mounts it when first used. Do you get the icon on WB when you boot up?

No FTP icon, hence the ACTIVATE=0.

It looks like ACTIVATE=1 might have been a red herring.

As far as I can tell, if USER and HOST are both set then FTPMount works as expected. Unfortunately setting HOST env-var is not very convenient, as I have makefiles that query it. However, I've set it to what the makefiles expect and will see if FTPMount crashes any more.

@Chris

That's an interesting finding I'll try to look at that this evening.

May I say that FTPMount is a really great and totally necessary application for our systems. If it had support for SFTP too, it would be great.

@abalaban
Is it possible to add SFTP support? Maybe, an implementation like the one PFTP has, by using Solie's ssh programs, would be faster/easier to complete.

@Chris

I've found the problem you were referring to. I'll probably release a fixed version soon.

@walkero

I don't know how Peter Gordon did in PFTP but SFTP is a lot more complex than "just" tunneling an FTP session in SSH (which is already tricky by itself because of the nature of FTP protocol dynamically opening channels) see wikipedia to understand SFTP is a different protocol.

I use FTPMount on a daily base for years now, for maintaining my website and didn't notice anything strange since I updated to AmigaOS 4.1 U3.

The only bug I always encounter is when I need to shutdown the netinterface, FTPMount crashes on the next connection to FTP that can be prevented only with reboot.

@abalaban

Excellent!

@abalaban
Thank you for your reply. Do you believe that it needs to be rewritten totally fro the scratch or maybe a different application is needed? I would like to have an application supporting both like ftpmount works. Thanks again for your time and the great work you do.