Thanks for all the suggestions.
I tried "sftp user@hostname" as advised and that did indeed work fine. This set
me off on a search for known problems with Filezilla. It seems a lot of Fedora
users were having similar problems with Filezilla 3.7.3, which turned out to be
the version I was running. For some reason it was disallowing SFTP connections
using SSH keys.
I've installed a later version (3.10.2) from a PPA and everything is now
working fine.
Cheers
Nige
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> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:24:14 +0000
> From: Nigel Verity <nigelver...@hotmail.com>
> To: Ubuntu UK Mailing List <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] SFTP Problem
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> Hi
>
> I've just installed Xubuntu 15.10 on an Acer netbook. I've installed Xubuntu
> many times before but not 15.10. It works fine.
>
> My standard routine is to next install openSSH-server and SSHFS, then start
> the SSH service.
>
> The situation now is that I can SSH into the box and I can mount its file
> system on a remote computer using SSHFS. For all that success, though, I
> cannot access the box from any other using Filezilla (SFTP). It just hangs
> then times out. I know it's not a problem with Filezilla per se as all my
> other laptops can "see" each other through it.
>
> Can anybody suggest where the cause may lie? Permissions perhaps?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nige
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