City of Warren IS Department wrote:
>
> I am trying to get FTP working between a WIN98 PC and a Linux server. I
> had it working before on an older red hat distribution. I remember that
> i had to make some changes to a configuration file. Currently when i try
>
> to FTP to the server it says connected--then after about 2 minutes it
> times out. I never get a user name prompt. I have looked everywhere i
> can to try and get a solution to this problem without any luck.
>
> Can somebody help???
make sure your /etc/hosts file has the IP address of the windows
machine within it.
