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It may be sending the root password from one box to the other.

Have you tried logging in on both boxes as the same user name with the same
password?

It might need a ftpusers file with nothing in it? Or better still, use the
standard one that excludes the common system uids (<100).

Is the ftp user's uid less than 100. On many systems, ftp user is uid 14 and
used by the ftp server to gain access to files.

Make sure that your ftp user's entry in the /etc/passwd file does not have a
* in the second field. This will stop user access. eg. ftp:*:14:50:Ftp
User:/home/ftp:

Other than that, it could be a mystery :-)

Greyman
graham@gmcs.com.au

thezombie@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<786k3a$so5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>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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