Problems with filezilla and ubuntu

Question

I have a big problem with my FileZilla on my current Ubuntu 12.10 installation so its unusable. First of all some facts:

• FileZilla works with my Router/WLan etc. setup on windows perfectly.
• It even worked on Ubuntu before upgrading (allthough I'm not sure if it affects at first 12.04 or 12.10)
• So the Problem I guess is related to my Ubuntu

The problems are the following:

• it's slow
• I often have connection timeouts while transfering a couple of files or often when changing directories
• often files get transferred without their contents
• furthermore if bigger uploads timeout or stop I cannot determine what has allready been uploaded because it does not seem to follow any order subdirectorywise.

I'm kind of a Linux beginner too so I have no idea what I can do about this. Hopefully anybody can help.

Answer 1

It seems that I encountered the same problem with you. It's all right using FileZilla on Windows, but unstable on Ubuntu. Frequent timeout after MSLD command occurred.

I solved the problem by using the ftp command instead. It's built-in and rather simple. You could also check if the ftp connection is OK in Ubuntu with this tool. If it is, then it might be something wrong with FileZilla. (I guess)

I wrote an article about this: http://pengwenqiang.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/the-usage-of-the-basic-ftp-command-in-linux/

Hope it helps.