I'm glad you think this is a difficult problem too, I've been playing with
this for 2 weeks on and off and eventually aim to have FrontPage server
extensions up and running on this box! Stand by for more questions: ) As for
my etc/mtab, here it is. Obviously the floppy (LS-120) is mounting as vfat.
/dev/sda5 / ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home ext2 rw 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
Further info on the box: It's a dual PII 350 with 512Mb, it runs an Intel
Pro100 NIC, a mystery video card (that works!) and has SCSI HDD (but I don't
actually know how big or how many, but probably lot's of space!)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen F.
Bosch
Sent: 10 April 2000 20:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] FTP
David Walters wrote:
>
> Stephen,
>
> I have no problems accessing the partitions locally, as for vfat, all I
did
> was throw in the Mandrake cd and let it install (the disk was previously
> unpartitioned). The reverse DNS seems to be OK (tried to do an nslookup
back
> to my machine which worked and I can telnet in without difficulty). I've
> tried ftp-ing in from Win98 and Solaris. Win98 never gets in, Solaris
> occasionally makes it in after 30 secs, but I can't recreate it every
time.
> I've also tried changing the access list, and also changed inetd.conf, so
> that it wouldn't use the access list, but it made no difference.
Ow, my brain.
Give me a bit to chew on this one -- it sure smells like a reverse
lookup failure, though if it were... you would be having trouble
telnetting, too...
Okay -- what's in /etc/mtab?
-Stephen-
