I love Dolphin both as a local file manager and as a FTP client, thanks to network transparency in KDE.

But I need to be able to connect to the same FTP server with several accounts because I am the webmaster for several organisations with the same hosting company.
So, when working for Org1 I need to connect to the FTP server of the hosting company as webmaster@org1.org and when working for Org2 I need to connect to the same FTP server as webmaster@org2.org.

But in Dolphin, once I have configured a shortcut as webmaster@org1.org and told KDE Wallet to remember this, I don't know how to get another shortcut to the same FTP server as webmaster@org2.org.
When I type the address of the FTP server in Dolphin, I am automatically connected as webmaster@org1.org and get no chance to say that I want to be webmaster@org2.org.

Or am I missing something ?


As a side note, Nautilus allows this. You can use the menu to connect to a server to configure several connections on the same server and then add these connections to your favorite places.

Assuming you are using the URL bar, enter: ftp://username@server/path.
Dolphin should prompt you for the password of the other account. You should be able to save this URL to the Dolphin Places area as well.

Thank you for your answer.

Your solution might work for some user, but not for me.

Usernames on my target FTP server are email addresses, already containing a '@' character.
So the URL would be something like user@domain@ftpserver.

When I try this in Dolphin, I get a malformed URL error.

But thank you nevertheless.

Guillaume Ponce wrote:Thank you for your answer.

Your solution might work for some user, but not for me.

Usernames on my target FTP server are email addresses, already containing a '@' character.
So the URL would be something like user@domain@ftpserver.

When I try this in Dolphin, I get a malformed URL error.

But thank you nevertheless.

You need to change the @ in the email address for an %40.

For example, for mail address mail@mail.com and server http://www.server.com you need to write:

mail%40mail.com@www.server.com

Problem solved. bcooksley's answer was right.
I must have forgotten the protocol in the URL last night ("ftp://"), that's why I got a malformed URL error.

Dolphin automatically substitute the first '@' with %40, it is not needed to take care of it.

So, final sum-up for those who would have the same problem as me :

1. type "user@domain@ftpserver"
2. Dolphin prompts you for a password. You can use KDE Wallet to remember the password.
3. You are logged in and you can even add this connection to your favorite places.

Next, with another user on the same FTP server, you can repeat the procedure and there will be no interference neither from KDE Wallet nor from the favorite places.