I have been having a terrible time getting vsftpd to work while my firewall is up and running. I have allowences for FTP connections in my firewall, but as soon as I turn in on, the client-side machine has a hard time connecting. It will pull up the directory tree but will not display it in WS_FTP unless I hit "cancel" This behaviour continues until I turn off my server-side firewall.

Here is my vsftpd.conf file:

anonymous_enable=YES

local_enable=YES

write_enable=YES

#local_umask=022

#anon_upload_enable=YES

#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES

dirmessage_enable=YES

xferlog_enable=YES

connect_from_port_20=YES

#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever

#xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log

#xferlog_std_format=YES

#idle_session_timeout=600

#data_connection_timeout=120

#nopriv_user=ftpsecure

#async_abor_enable=YES

#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES

#ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.

#deny_email_enable=YES

#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd.banned_emails
#

#chroot_list_enable=YES

#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list

#ls_recurse_enable=YES


What should I do to be able to run my firewall and my FTP server at the same time???

Any input would be appreciated!

skybolt_1

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Anyone?

exactly what do you have configured in the firewall to allow ftp? Do you allow both port 20 and 21 for example? What do the firewall logs show is happening?

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