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Re: FTP problem - RedHat 5.2

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From: Regit Young
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:00
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Does your particular ftpd needs a ftpuser file? Check the documentation that
comes with it.

Regit

thezombie@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> I've managed to setup a FTP daemon on the two Linux boxes I've connected via a
> private network. However I'm having this problem accessing the other Linux box
> via FTP. The problem is as follows:
>
> ftp fairlane
> Connected to fairlane
> 220 fairlane.fords.com.au FTP Server ..............
> Name (fairlane:root): ftp
> 530 User ftp access denied
> Login failed
>
> I only have two Linux machines connected to each other and I can't ftp both
> ways. Using either machine to access the other via ftp gets the above error
> message. I have setup a ftp account. I've also tried root and my personal
> account both getting the above message. I don't have a \etc\ftpusers file so
> I assume that no user accounts are denied at all. Also I've checked
> hosts.allow and that is set as ALL : ALL  and nothing is in hosts.deny so
> what could be the problem? It seems strange that it didn't even ask me for
> the password before giving me the error message. I've installed wu-ftppackage
> on both machines as well. I was able to telnet to one other no problems and
> NFS works as well. So can anyone tell me what's going on? Thanks.
>
> Timbo.
>
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From: Regit Young <regit@wantree.com.au>
Subject: Re: FTP problem - RedHat 5.2
Date: 1999/01/21
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