Blocking notepad++ ftp plugin on server side

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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What could be blocking the notepad++ ftp plugin on server side? It connects to server fine. It opens the file fine. When I try to save the file I get disconnected.

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Looks like it might be a known issue, see this link from Notepad++ forum where a workaround is suggested………….

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If you want, paste the following details:

  1. FTP server (vsftpd / proftpd / pure-ftpd)
  2. Whether server is behind NAT
  3. Firewall type (ufw / nftables / raw iptables)

Then we can give you a more comprehensive reply.

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Thank you. That was it. Wish I was better at googling. How did you find that?

I will add the steps in case anyone finds this post with google.

Click the settings icon in the notepad ++ ftp plugin, profile settings, click a profile you want to edit, cache, click the … button by add new button, set a local path I chose C:\Users\user_name\Downloads, set a external path I chose /, click the add new button

An odd thing to note. I am using Windows 11. I also have admin privileges on my computer but still needed to do this. Not sure why I was having trouble. This issue occurred on a red hat server. The red hat server has time out issues all the time.

I have zero problems on my sunos servers. I did not change my cache settings at all on my sunos servers.

Someone that is good with copilot pointed out another option is to use winscp with notepad ++. This required no setup. Just use winscp to open your remote file in notepad++. I have notepad ++ setup as my default text editor. Not sure if this is the case for all Linux/Unix servers but scp is more stable on the red hat server I am using.

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Do you have to be an admin to check all this information? I am using red hat if that helps.

The ftp seemed to be the only one I could check.

$ rpm -qai ftp
Name        : ftp
Version     : 0.17
Release     : 78.el8
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Sun 05 Mar 2023 12:27:57 PM CST
Group       : Applications/Internet
Size        : 114803
License     : BSD with advertising
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Fri 14 Dec 2018 02:52:28 AM CST, Key ID 199e2f91fd431d51
Source RPM  : ftp-0.17-78.el8.src.rpm
Build Date  : Tue 11 Dec 2018 09:59:53 AM CST
Build Host  : x86-vm-02.build.eng.bos.redhat.com
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Vendor      : Red Hat, Inc.
URL         : ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/Networking/netkit
Summary     : The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client
Description :
The ftp package provides the standard UNIX command-line FTP (File
Transfer Protocol) client.  FTP is a widely used protocol for
transferring files over the Internet and for archiving files.

If your system is on a network, you should install ftp in order to do
file transfers.

$ rpm -qa nftables
$ rpm -qa firewalld
$ rpm -qa iptables

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This is the client package, not the server. My question earlier to you was:

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It was nothing clever mate. When you have a Unix/Linux problem you come here. When you have a Notepad++ problem you go to the Notepad++ forum.