[TriLUG] Curious VSFTP issue

[Barry Gaskins]

   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 <bitmage at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > 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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