Benjamin,

Yes, but it still fails to start.


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Benjamin Tayehanpour <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Have you tried commenting out the 'IdentLookups' directive in the
> specified file?
>
> On 6 August 2013 11:15, okwii David <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > From time to time, i ran into windows environments (mainly from friends)
> > where i need to share files or something similar.
> >
> > In the past, i've been using my favorite ftp server, vsftp which has
> since
> > proven to be buggy with the latest releases. I've since looked at
> > alternatives like proftp which works fine on Ubuntu, but won't start on
> my
> > opensuse 12.3. Gives the following error message;
> >
> > Checking for service proftpd
> > unused
> > proftpd.service - ProFTPd FTP server
> >           Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/proftpd.service;
> disabled)
> >           Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue, 2013-08-06
> 11:53:26
> > EAT; 19min ago
> >          Process: 3594 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/proftpd --nodaemon
> (code=exited,
> > status=1/FAILURE)
> >           CGroup: name=systemd:/system/proftpd.service
> >
> > Aug 06 11:53:25 linux-cmb9.site systemd[1]: Starting ProFTPd FTP
> server...
> > Aug 06 11:53:25 linux-cmb9.site systemd[1]: Started ProFTPd FTP server.
> > Aug 06 11:53:25 linux-cmb9.site proftpd[3594]: linux-cmb9.site
> > proftpd[3594]: unable to bind to Unix domain socket at
> > '/var/run/proftpd/test.sock':...directory
> > Aug 06 11:53:26 linux-cmb9.site proftpd[3594]: linux-cmb9.site
> > proftpd[3594]: warning: unable to include '/etc/proftpd/modules.conf': No
> > such file or directory
> > Aug 06 11:53:26 linux-cmb9.site proftpd[3594]: linux-cmb9.site
> > proftpd[3594]: Fatal: unknown configuration directive 'IdentLookups' on
> line
> > 13 of '...tpd.conf'
> > Aug 06 11:53:26 linux-cmb9.site systemd[1]: proftpd.service: main process
> > exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> > Aug 06 11:53:26 linux-cmb9.site systemd[1]: Unit proftpd.service entered
> > failed state
> >
> >
> > So, i've turned to samba which works fine with windows 7 machines, but
> won't
> > work with windows 8(which most of my friends are using).
> >
> > Has anyone encoutered these issues? What's the simplest solution for file
> > sharing between opensuse 12.3 and windows 8 PCs? Thanks.
> >
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