[KLUG Members] FTP Server Problems/Questions

[Bruce Smith]

> I have been tasked with setting up a FTP site on a RH7.1 box and haven't had
> much luck getting it to do much so far. The service seems to be running, I
> can't ftp to local host, which leads me to believe it's maybe a permissions
> problem. I'm using wu-ftp and have fiddled with the kde interface for the
> permissions, but haven't had any luck. Is there any sort of standard generic
> permission setup for users to be able to use ftp? Or perhaps there is a
> better chunk of software I could use to simplify this whole ftp process.

During your install, you didn't by chance tell it to configure a
firewall, and forget to open the FTP ports?  Just a guess . . .

It's been my experience that FTP always works out of the box on Redhat. 
Once it's installed, it works.  No extra configuration is necessary.  
But I've been bit by the firewall setup more than once myself.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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