Hi Rusty,
Praise be I figured out what the problem was. I had mistakenly place
ftp
ftpadmin
anonymous
in the ftpusers file and as soon as I removed those entries from that
file the whole thing started working beautifully.
thanks for all the help and the info. that stuff's a keeper.
Mark
Rusty Carruth wrote:
>
> Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Rusty,
> >
> > As a matter of fact I used all the FTP packages specifically for
> > Mandrake on my machine at home. what's weird about it is that a few
> > weeks ago I had FTP working fine, then something happened and i had to
> > reload or the monitor bought wasn't going to work cause I was running
> > the wrong version of XFree86. thats another store though.
> >
> > anyway, when I did setup again all went smooth until I attempted to log
> > in as an anonymous user.
>
> I just skimmed an article in Linux Journal about oftpd which may be even
> better. Its a read-only (I think) ftp server that ONLY takes anon connections.
> I bet if you look on.... oh, shoot, I can find it really quick, here...
> its at freshmeat:
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/oftpd/
>
> > something else that is a bit strange is that
> > ypbind isn't working correctly. If i'm not mistaken doesn't that have
> > something to do with DNS service and aren't they somehow related to FTP
> > services?
>
> Perhaps. If ftpd is configired to verify your @foo.com domain in your
> password (*), having name lookups fail could cause things to hose.
>
> And, yes, ypbind is (can be) part of your name lookup sequence. Probably
> a good idea to get that fixed and see whats still broken.
>
> (* - can it do this???)
>
> rc
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