[TriLUG] Curious VSFTP issue

[Dave Sorenson]

I did as part of my testing. I can log in but when I do an "ls" I get 
"connection timed out" message after a minute or so.

Dave S.

Barry Gaskins wrote:
>    Dave,
>
>    Have you tried accessing the ftp server from a command line.  You might
> get a meaningful error message  that way.  It is a bit hard to say what the
> problem is without at least an error message.
>
>    - Barry
>
> On 12/7/05, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> 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?
>>
>> I usually ftp via scp. I was hoping to let my friend use their existing
>> WSFTP client as they fear change and I don't have extra time to handhold.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Dave
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