Thanks for your help, I've fixed it. Well, someone told me how to fix it.
Apparently I had an automount running. Stop it and ftp works again. Now all
I have to do is get FrontPage Server Extensions working. That'll be fun.
-----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-
