Re: PROFTPD: Some users cannot upload files, some users cannot get directory listing

From: Joe Dunning (joe_at_blahblah.invalid)
Date: 10/24/03 

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 05:50:54 GMT

On 23 Oct 2003 20:28:49 -0700, Marc <marc@tconsulting.org> wrote:
>I am behind a firewall and my local computers can login as any user
>with WS-FTP, FTP Voyager, and Coffee Cup and do all normal ftp
>activities. My external users, however, experience the following
>problems:
>
>Some users can login, but cannot get a directory listing, some users
>can login but not u/l, and yet other users can login but cannot u/l or
>d/l.

If it is different users, they are probalby using different clients,
which may use different modes (active, passive) by default.

This does not explain the 3 different types of behavior, but it might be
worth checking to see if your firewall allows both active and passive
transfers to/from external users.

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