hi please excuse my ignorance for i am a new newbie.

i have recently installed mandrake 9.1 on a pentium2 and hoping to use it both as a desktop environment and print server.

to start with i just want to use it as an ftp server.

when i try and upload using fetch on a mac it is extremely slow - less than 1kbs - using a command line on a pc it is fine, as it is downloading onto my mac using fetch.

i don't think it is fetch - never had any problems like it before.

more info - i am using ipcop as a router

i am also very nervous with a command line and want to try and set things up through webmin.

thanks for your help

Hi,
Just read your problem. Is this still a problem for you?
If so, are these machines all on a LAN or what?

thanks for getting back, the problem is sorted now. don't really know what happened but the linux server desktop crashed and sorted the problem.

Sometimes if you toggle passive mode on or off can fix this. I once was ftp'ing into my server with passive mode enabled and this created thus a very slow connection, even just LS'ing directories and such.

Just a thought or suggestion.

glad to hear it Haydn
thx for tip trickykid