Re: ftp to linux server fails

From: vom (vom_at_burn.net.nospam)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: 14 Apr 2004 14:29:55 GMT

In article <Bhbfc.71095$FL.4706334@phobos.telenet-ops.be>, SH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently setup a SuSE server on my network
> and today I tried getting FTP to work, but I didn't
> succeed.
> Because it's just for testing I'm using ftpd (on SuSE 9.0).
> I've added it to xinetd (in /etc/xinetd.d/ftpd.conf).
> I can connect locally via "ftp localhost", but when I try
> to connect via the command prompt in Windows XP "ftp 192.168.1.12",
> the IP address of the server, that fails.
> I am able to ping 192.168.1.12.
> I was guessing iptables blocked access to it so I did
> iptables --flush (probably not a good thing), but it didn't
> help either.
> And hosts.allow doesn't contain anything, while hosts.deny only
> contains "http-rman: ALL EXCEPT LOCAL".
> One last thing: my client (win xp) and server (SuSE) are connected
> via a router (192.168.1.1).
>
> Anyone who can tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Do a "netstat -ltnpa" (I don't use Suse so you may have to take some of
those arguments out if it complains, RH/FC's netstat takes all those args).
This should show you the ports in a listen state, for tcp, and the
associated processes. From this you should be able to see what address(es)
ftp is listening on (port 21). Your system may only be listening on
localhost for security reasons. 

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