Re: No default action associated with this location ...

[Martin Smith <msmith bitmonster org>]

Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish <at> planet.nl> writes:

> 
> When I try to connect to a server via ssh using 'Places->Connect to
> Server->Service type:SSH' I get the following error:
> 
> Can't display location "sftp://username <at> servername" There is no default
> action associated with this location.
> 
> A couple weeks ago it used to work just fine and then all of a sudden no
> more.
> 
> I am using Gnome Desktop 2.12 on FreeBSD 6.0.
> 
> Anyone know how I can fix this?
> 

I found a thread discussing the same issue on an ubuntu list.  It seems the
default handler for sftp is missing.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/11574

<quote>
The following does, however, fix the problem:

[3:19] [ben:/home/treed]% gconftool-2 --type boolean --set
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/sftp/enabled true
[3:19] [ben:/home/treed]% gconftool-2 --type string --set
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/sftp/command "/usr/bin/nautilus %s"
</quote>