Re: Newbie: detect distribution and Version

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:39:19 -0000

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In comp.os.linux.networking Benjamin Z. Gregorian <bzgregorian@gmx.de> suggested:
> Hi there
> As you can see abouve I am a newbie to many areas of LINUX.
> I already installed several LINUX machines with samba and shorewall with a
> little help of webmin....
> However I do face problems with the following.
> -----------
> We do have a Server at the place of our provider.
> I can log in as root with putty
> Apperently on the server is redhat-release "Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)"
> installed.
> netstat -a ---- shows that ftp is runnig

> but if I try to connect via ftp to the server I am not able to conntact!!

> Is there a restricton for the root??

Yep, for good reasons root login via ftp is disabled, as root ssh
login should be. Use some user account and 'su -' or use 'sudo'.

> Please advise how to build up aftp connection to the server in order to
> transfer files like webmin and to install..

Simply use scp, there's a nice M$ GUI frontend called winscp you
can download for free, to transfer files in a secure way to a
*nix box with sshd running, if you are limited to M$ on your
desktop. 

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