Hi all ... I just put slackware 3.6 from sunsite on my Toshiba laptop, and
got X mostly working. I wanted to install Window Maker, so I downloaded it
on my win98 box, and was going to ftp it over to the laptop across the
network. I couldn't upload, though ...
<anonymous login here>
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
etc
pub
usr
bin
lib
incoming
welcome.msg
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 48 bytes received in 0.05Seconds 0.96Kbytes/sec.
ftp> send
Local file c:\bin\WindowMaker-0_20_3_tar.tar
Remote file <didn't matter what I put here>
200 PORT command successful.
553 WindowMaker-0_20_3_tar.tar: Permission denied. (Upload)
ftp>
So I tried to just make a new user back on the Linux box, maybe one with
superuser privileges <and here's the main problem> ... using adduser ... and
all was well until I hit the final ENTER, where I got
"Making new account...
useradd: unable to lock password file
chfn: Unknown user <my user name>
passwd: Unknown user <same username here>
Done..."
SO - first, why can't I upload to my linux box from my 98 box across the
network - since it looks like the /etc/ftpaccess file says most anyone can
get in, and second, what's with this 'lock password file' thing? I'm pretty
new at Linux, and glad to get this far, but I'm bamboozled at this point.
thanks in advance!
dave w
