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Can't see content (PDFs) in FTP when mounting via curlftpfs (onto a CentOS7 machine). Can anyone help debug what could be going on here? I am using the instructions here: https://linuxconfig.org/mount-remote-ftp-directory-host-locally-into-linux-filesystem

As a regular user myuser, tried to mount via...

curlftpfs 'myftpuser:myftppassword@MY.SERVER.IP' /home/myuser/custom/mount/location/

... and found that

  1. I could not see any contents in that location after the command completed (via ls command nor in the file explorer UI) and

  2. even though I mounted as myuser in a location w/in myuser's /home dir, I still see permissions as ...

drwxr-x-rx 1 root root 1.0K

... when running ls -lh (also not that the FTP dir should have a few GBs of PDFs in there, but here the size listed is tiny).

Trying to mount as root in a /root/tmp/location/ does not appear to help (permissions are still listed as root (which I guess would be a good thing here), but I can still see nothing in the mounted dir as root in the terminal).

Anyone know what could be going on here? Ideas for getting more debug info?

* UPDATE:

Note that 1) I can access the share via Windows network share and 2) the full name of the FTP user's home dir includes spaces and dash (-) characters (which I currently suspect is the problem (IDK why exactly), but still testing).

lampShadesDrifter
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Unfortunately, this a known bug. See report on Debian mailing list, and original bug. Renaming folders and files prevents the issue from appearing, but of course this is not always viable.

giocomai
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Not totally sure why / the underlying issue ATM, but it appears that the issue was due to the fact the the Windows share that I was FTP'ing into (via CorePoint FTP on top of that share) had a name in it's path that included spaces and a dash (-) character. Renaming the share to something without these characters appears to have fixed the issue.

(If anyone knows why at a more detailed / underlying level, please do LMK and I can add it to this post)

lampShadesDrifter
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