Gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect: GSConnect, send files from laptop and mount option don't work

[PrzemekSkw]

Describe the bug
I install GSConnect from Firefox gnome extensions web page. Everything works well (send files from smartphone, move mouse over my laptop desktop, type keyboard and control multimedia, send sms...) but cannot send files from laptop to smartphone and can't open mounted folder from android.
I see notification on my laptop that transfer goes well but on my smartphone I see that don't send.
When I open mounted folder on nautilus I see error:

[that means: This position cannot be displayed. Cannot display all content on downloads. Connection closed (SSH process terminated unexpectedly)

in terminal:

[mariank@marian-dell sftp:host=192.168.1.133,port=1739]$ ls
downloads
[mariank@marian-dell sftp:host=192.168.1.133,port=1739]$ cd downloads/
[mariank@marian-dell downloads]$ 
[mariank@marian-dell downloads]$ ls
ls: czytanie katalogu '.': Błąd wejścia/wyjścia [Error input / output]
[mariank@marian-dell downloads]$ 

Steps To Reproduce:

Reboot android smartphone and laptop.

Support Log

GSConnect Version: 39
GSConnect Install: user
GJS: 16404
XDG_SESSION_TYPE: x11
GDMSESSION: gnome
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-- Logs begin at Thu 2020-07-02 11:52:01 CEST, end at Wed 2020-08-12 11:53:18 CEST. --
sie 12 11:53:06 gnome-shell[7632]: setup_framebuffers: assertion 'width > 0' failed
sie 12 11:53:06 gnome-shell[7632]: setup_framebuffers: assertion 'width > 0' failed
sie 12 11:53:06 gnome-shell[7632]: setup_framebuffers: assertion 'width > 0' failed
sie 12 11:53:18 tracker-miner-f[8668]: g_str_has_suffix: assertion 'str != NULL' failed

System Details (please complete the following information):

• GSConnect version: 39
  
  
  
  • Installed from: GNOME Extensions Website
  
  
• GNOME/Shell version: 3.36.4

• Distro/Release: EndevourOS [arch-based]

• Paired Device(s): Motorola One Vision, Android 10

• KDE Connect app version: 1.14.2

Regards Przemek

[andyholmes]

This sounds like a duplicate of #746. Are you sure all the ports (1716 & 1739-1764) are open for both your phone and desktop? This seems like its probably a networking problem.

[PrzemekSkw]

@andyholmes Hi, I don't have any firewall in my laptop. Do You mean I have to open ports on my router?

[andyholmes]

If your router is blocking any of those ports between your phone and your desktop, then that will definitely prevent those plugins from working.

[PrzemekSkw]

OK, I'm in work now and I don't have access to router so I will check in my home.
Regards.

[ThracianKnight1907]

I'm experiencing the same problem on my Fedora machine. This is my log when attempting to send a file from laptop to phone
log.txt
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System Details (please complete the following information):

GSConnect version: 41
    Installed from: GNOME Extensions Website

GNOME/Shell version: 3.36.5

Distro/Release: Fedora 32

Paired Device(s): Huawei P20 Pro, Android 10

KDE Connect app version: 1.14.2

In the firewalld app I added exceptions for kdeconnect, however it doesnt seem to have any effect...

[andyholmes]

Have you configured a location for received files in the Android app?

[ferdnyc]

Part of #746 was also the discovery that some devices won't allow you to share certain directories as the exported filesystem path in KDE Connect. (Oh, they'll _allow_ you to select it, but the remote access won't work.)

In the last comment at that other issue, a user reported that creating a dedicated "KDE Connect" directory in the root of their device's user storage space (/sdcard) and exporting that worked, while trying to share their existing /sdcard/Download/ dir had only led to strange failures.

[andyholmes]

There is an upstream MR that's probably related as well: SharePlugin: Configure receiving directory in plugin permission mechanism

I'm going to close this one up in any case, as the logs seem to confirm this is not a problem in GSConnect. Feel free to re-open if you can provide logs showing GSConnect doing something wrong.