On Friday 05 November 2004 17:43, Eric Scott wrote: > > On Friday 05 November 2004 16:47, Eric Scott wrote: > > > Yo. In risk of showing my ignorance; how to I configure my firewall on > > > Mandrake 9.2? I need to make sure the FTP port is open. (FTP's not > > > working... and by golly if there's a firewall on it it wouldn't work > > > then, would it?) Anyway, I know nothing of firewalls and need some > > > basics. Thanx, > > > SigmaChi > > > > Menu>System>Configure>ConfigureYourComputer>Security>Firewall> > > Tick the box for FTP server > > > > Or if you want to learn about how the firewall works in depth, read the > > files in /etc/shorewall and visit www.shorewall.net > > > > derek > > Lol, I should of at least checked the control center before I posted. But > anyway, my firewall is totally off. ProFTPD seems to be running > smoothly... but not letting me access. Allow me to quote my previous post: > > <quote> > Yo people. I've got a Mandrake Linux 9.2 server running ProFTP v1.28. I > thought I had it all set up to run with anonymous FTP access (Using a > sample /etc/proftpd.config from proftpd.org for now), and starting through SNIP The newbie way of getting proFTP to work is to uninstall proFTP and remove the config file you are using, then install the drakwizard package and Mandrake Control Centre will have a new 'Server' section. It will reinstall and configure proFTP for you.
derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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