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I had a strange situation where I was setting up a small network all with fixed IPs. I had a NAS drive that I had enabled ftp on. I was using ubuntu 10.10, when I used the 'connect to server' menu I was able to connect fine (or just entering in the URL in nautilus). However from the command line the ftp command didn't work, and gave an unknown host error. I was able to ping the drive however.

In the end I used the gvfs-host command to enable a scripted connection. I'm just wondering if anyone has come across this problem or how to fix it.

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We would need more information than that. Tell us exactly what you typed and exactly what error messages you got (copy-paste). – Gilles Sep 24 '12 at 23:12

closed as not a real question by Gilles, Renan, warl0ck, Mat, Tim Kennedy Sep 26 '12 at 19:21

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