[TriLUG] Curious VSFTP issue

[Brian Daniels]

> 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?
> >

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


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