Dolphin, the KDE file manager, seems to work as you would hope. So that may be an option for you. I would suggest that since this is an ssh/gvfs error, the "correct" behaviour is not to break nautilus.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None => nautilus Status: New => Invalid -- Create folder is greyed out on SFTP remote folders when UID/GID doesn't match https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs