[SOLVED] SFTP fails in KDE Plasma 5 and Evolution email fails to start

alex4buba · 09-22-2020, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

Egad!
Does that mean you can’t ssh to that server? At the command line...?

Well, if you tell me how, I will try

Thanks
Alex

scasey · 09-22-2020, 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alex4buba

Well, if you tell me how, I will try

Thanks
Alex

As always...man ssh
Is the user on the client the same as the user on the server? Then

Code:

ssh hostname

Otherwise,

Code:

ssh user@hostname

You should be prompted for the user password.
Does that work?

Turbocapitalist · 09-23-2020, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alex4buba

Got response from my host site provider:
I'm sorry to say that we do not support SFTP on our shared servers. You will not able to access SFTP for his domain

Well, that's a surprise and a disappointment. I didn't think there were any providers like that left.

I would strongly encourage you to sign up at another provider very, very quickly and then cancel all services at the provider still locked into the 1970s. Hopefully they only have been doing hosting and your DNS registrar is some other company.

alex4buba · 09-23-2020, 12:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

As always...man ssh
Is the user on the client the same as the user on the server? Then

Code:

ssh hostname

Otherwise,

Code:

ssh user@hostname

You should be prompted for the user password.
Does that work?

You see, how hard, or even impossible it is for a veteran like you, to get down to a newbie like me... It will take me a long time to get to that.

To you MAN, is obvious, is natural, is second nature. To me - why would I think about this word
To you SSH .... to me - what is that?

Well I tried: ssh webmaster@ourvilla.net.au - it sits there and does nothing.

Never mind

Thanks
Alex

alex4buba · 09-23-2020, 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turbocapitalist

Well, that's a surprise and a disappointment. I didn't think there were any providers like that left.

I would strongly encourage you to sign up at another provider very, very quickly and then cancel all services at the provider still locked into the 1970s. Hopefully they only have been doing hosting and your DNS registrar is some other company.

Thnaks, not simple at all. I live in Australia, not in the USA. They are one of the larger ISP's here

Cheers
Alex

scasey · 09-23-2020, 01:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alex4buba

You see, how hard, or even impossible it is for a veteran like you, to get down to a newbie like me... It will take me a long time to get to that.

To you MAN, is obvious, is natural, is second nature. To me - why would I think about this word
To you SSH .... to me - what is that?

Well I tried: ssh webmaster@ourvilla.net.au - it sits there and does nothing.

Never mind

Thanks
Alex

Is webmaster a valid user on that server?
I seriously doubt that your hosting provider doesn’t support ssh/sftp.
Ask them how to ssh to your VPS...

alex4buba · 09-23-2020, 02:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

Is webmaster a valid user on that server?
I seriously doubt that your hosting provider doesn’t support ssh/sftp.
Ask them how to ssh to your VPS...

We live in a different country, different rules, in many ways different

Even if they do support ssh (whatever that does) - I am excited about the idea of the need to upload / download files from the host platform via command line interaction, I will just use FTP which I am using for many years.

Thanks anyway

Cheers
Alex