hello everybody,
i have finally managed to set up my own ftp server as a fairly new linux user. i am running vsftpd.

I starting by following a tutorial, and setting up anonymous access, but am having trouble uploading files to the pub directory despite the vsftpd.conf alterations i have made. the useful bits are as follows:

anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
anon_upload_enable=YES

ok. so i created the upload/download directory as pub. and set the permissions :
chmod a+rwx pub
(i do realise the big security issues that this poses, but at the moment it is only on my small little LAN, and i just want to get this working! )

Now, in theory, the anonymous user can log in, examine and modify the contents of the directory pub, and upload to that directoy, yet when i hop on my windows machine, log in as anonymous, i am unable to upload..!
I am sure this is only a simple little problem, and any help would be greatly appreciated.

obviously one confused newbie,

mindfestival.

Make sure that the username anonymous has rw access to the pub directory. If I read your post correctly, this may be the problem that you are having.

ok, i dont want this to sound dumb.... although...

how do i set permissions for an individual user?
with chown a+rwx doesnt 'all' entail all users automatically?

Here is a good page outlining the correct ways to set permissions:

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/..._ugfilesp.html

As for the a+rwx command, as in the above tutorial, I have always used chmod ugo+rwx <filename> to set a directory for full access to all users. I really am not the one to be giving a tutorial on permissions i'm afraid. However issuing chmod 666 <wherever pub is located> would give you rw access to the directory.

Hello, sorry about the delay,
hrrmmm, strangley enough giving full access to /var/ftp/pub hasn't fixed it...
Also i am now getting a strange error message on connection attemps

$ftp localhost
Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1)
500 OOPS: Could not bind listening socket

I have the same error message... i dont know how to fix this

Sorry I haven't replied lately,I just got back from vacation. I will try to set this up tomorrow when I get into the office and see if I get the same error. Maybe we can work this out.