Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Monday 08 November 2004 00:55, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2004 03:34 am, Eric Scott wrote: Hold up. Reinstalling proftpd got me a default that worked... supposedly... but then why does it say 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1) when I ftp into my domain. lol. Gee wizzle this is getting confusing. Here I thought I was dealing with proFTP, and now there's vsFTP... which I didn't even remember I installed. Anyway; since it's already running... where's the vsFTPd config file? lol. Sigma It should be in /etc/vsftpd.conf However, back to proftpd. On default installation (without any config to edit), you should be able to connect to your FTP server, using your system username and password. Well I got proFTPd working. Somehow (Don't ask me how) I got vsFTPd insatlled earlier from source with the config file someplace else. I couldn't find it in etc or anywhere. But yeah, I disabled vsFTPd and now proFTPd works fine. Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Saturday 06 November 2004 03:34 am, Eric Scott wrote: Hold up. Reinstalling proftpd got me a default that worked... supposedly... but then why does it say 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1) when I ftp into my domain. lol. Gee wizzle this is getting confusing. Here I thought I was dealing with proFTP, and now there's vsFTP... which I didn't even remember I installed. Anyway; since it's already running... where's the vsFTPd config file? lol. Sigma It should be in /etc/vsftpd.conf However, back to proftpd. On default installation (without any config to edit), you should be able to connect to your FTP server, using your system username and password. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 13:53:39 up 6:15, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Community) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firewall Admin?
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 -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
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 MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall 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 -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
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 MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall 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 xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
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 MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall 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 xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES Chech you log files - the messages generated when you try to connect should be helpful. It may be that xinetd is listening because of the proftpd-xinetd file. If so, and the path to proftpd is wrong, you will get this kind of response. You will also get it if proftpd is not configured properly. You could also be running into a problem because of /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. A lot of daemons check these files to see if the system trying to connect is allowed to use the service. Everything run through xinetd is subject to these rules. But the error message doesn't really indicate this problem. In any case, it is not a firewall problem right now, because you do connect, but the connection is dropped afterworlds. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 11:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: 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 MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall 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 xinetd... but apparently it isn't set up right, or at least it's not wanting to be just jiggy with me. Here's my setup and what happens when I try to access the ftp site: details My config file is a standard example (temporaraly) that can be found at http://proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf After copying the above file in to /etc/proftpd.conf, I restarted xinetd. (I know next to nothing about xinetd or how to run proftpd under it, but for what it's worth, there's a 'proftpd-xinetd' file in /etc/xinetd.d/) Here's what gets my relatively-novice Linux mind boggled. Something seems to be running, but I only sorta get an ftp connection when the client connects: At this point 'netstat -a | grep ftp' gives: tcp0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN Seems chipper, from what I can gather from the limited proftpd howtos I've found. When I start to connect with a client and do netstat I get (domains are aliased): tcp0 0 [MyDomain]:ftp [ClientDomain] ESTABLISHED The client says Connected to [MyDomain] ([MyIP]) A few seconds later it goes: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection /details Now this is probably way too much of the wrong info needed to solve my problem, which I suspect is relatively simple. I'm obviously new to FTP and fairly new to Linux; but I need this FTP server up and (eventually) configured to my requirements. any help? /quote I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. Couldn't I just skip the newbie part and know everything? I'll probably show up this weekend asking how to get a POP3 server up, so if you have any pre-emptive tips fire away. Thanx, ES Chech you log files - the messages generated when you try to connect should be helpful. It may be that xinetd is listening because of the proftpd-xinetd file. If so, and the path to proftpd is wrong, you will get this kind of response. You will also get it if proftpd is not configured properly. You could also be running into a problem because of /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. A lot of daemons check these files to see if the system trying to connect is allowed to use the service. Everything run through xinetd is subject to these rules. But the error message doesn't really indicate this problem. In any case, it is not a firewall problem right now, because you do connect, but the connection is dropped afterworlds. Mikkel Aha! Would it be because my /etc/proftpd.conf file has severtype set to standalone? What to I replace standalone with to tell it to work through xinetd? just inetd or xinetd? thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
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 MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin?
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: 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 MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall 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 Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Friday 05 November 2004 18:32, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: 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 MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall 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 Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
On Friday 05 November 2004 12:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 18:32, Eric Scott wrote: On Friday 05 November 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings wrote: 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 MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall 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 Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek Well I did what you said and got it reinstalled. I installed everything that came up when I searched for proftp, but there's still no server section in the control center. I installed gproftpd, but it only works for standalone, and I'd prefer to run it via xinetd (Which is the default setup.) I've found enough howto's that I might be able to dig and and config it manually via the /etc/proftpd.conf file... maybe :-P. One plus: I know the server works now. lol; in konqueror when I go to ftp://[mydomain] it logs in and gives me an empty directory with a pub folder... it's a start. Anyway, do you know the package for the proftp server config module you mentioned? Thanx, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Admin? - wandering on to proFTP and ssh
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 MenuSystemConfigureConfigureYourComputerSecurityFirewall 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 Sounds dandy... but there's no cd drive in the system, and it's five miles away at the moment. (I'm using tightvnc/ssh/webmin to admin it) Anyplace I could download and install the same packages and config software? Thanx, ES Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ declare a urpmi source for 'main' and 'contrib' and you will never be asked for a CD. It will get everything off the net. derek Well I did what you said and got it reinstalled. I installed everything that came up when I searched for proftp, but there's still no server section in the control center. I installed gproftpd, but it only works for standalone, and I'd prefer to run it via xinetd (Which is the default setup.) I've found enough howto's that I might be able to dig and and config it manually via the /etc/proftpd.conf file... maybe :-P. One plus: I know the server works now. lol; in konqueror when I go to ftp://[mydomain] it logs in and gives me an empty directory with a pub folder... it's a start. Anyway, do you know the package for the proftp server config module you mentioned? Thanx, SigmaChi Hold up. Reinstalling proftpd got me a default that worked... supposedly... but then why does it say 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.1) when I ftp into my domain. lol. Gee wizzle this is getting confusing. Here I thought I was dealing with proFTP, and now there's vsFTP... which I didn't even remember I installed. Anyway; since it's already running... where's the vsFTPd config file? lol. Sigma -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.4) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't real OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
