Dave, When you said you tried turning off the firewall do you mean on the ftp server AND on the machine running the ftp client. If the client machine is a windows XP box it may also have a firewall that could block the server talking back to the client.
- Barry Gaskins On 12/7/05, Brian Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/7/05, Dave Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I decided to enable FTP access on my CentOS4 server for a friend of > mine > > > to use for a short time and we are having a curious problem that > Google > > > can't seem to help with. VSFTP is running, and will connect, but after > > > you enter your username and password it never is able to return the > home > > > directory listing. I've tried both passive and active modes with > > > multiple FTP clients, scoured the vsftpd.conf, firewall is open on 20 > > > and 21 (I even tried disabling the firewall briefly to make sure that > > > was not the problem) but no luck. anyone ever see this before? > > > > > Sounds like passive FTP not getting through the firewall. Try doing a > 'modprobe > ip_conntrack_ftp' on the server, or seeing if you can force your client to > use > active mode only. > > --Brian > > > -- > I think my life is fuller because I realize > that I don't know what I'm doing. > I'm delighted with the width of the world! > ---Richard Feynman > > > Brian Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.eviloverlord.net > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
