How to share folders on different drives via FTP

sean_zhang · 05-06-2008, 07:40 PM

Service: vsftpd
OS: RHEL

I want to share multiple folders on different drives/partitions via FTP. But I don't want to copy all of these files to /var/ftp/pub/.
Is there a kind of "link" that could do this job?

3Q!

eggixyz · 05-06-2008, 10:07 PM

Hey There,

You could set up account based login access. Or are you stuck with only being able to offer anonymous?

Thanks,

Mike

eliufoo · 05-06-2008, 11:58 PM

Give the folder appropriate privilege access to the ftp users, then create a symbolic link (ln -s) between the partitioned folders and user folder (/home/ or /var/ftp/pub).

Elly

sean_zhang · 05-07-2008, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eliufoo

Give the folder appropriate privilege access to the ftp users, then create a symbolic link (ln -s) between the partitioned folders and user folder (/home/ or /var/ftp/pub).

Elly

I have a folder /data/share on /dev/sdb1.
I changed its context:
chcon --reference=/var/ftp/pub /data/share
And created a soft link to /data/share in /var/ftp/pub/.

But I cannot open the folder pub/share/ from the client.

sean_zhang · 05-07-2008, 12:24 AM

lftp localhost:/pub> ls
share/
lftp localhost:/pub> cd share
cd: Access failed: 550 Failed to change directory. (/pub/share)

eggixyz · 05-07-2008, 02:13 AM

Hey There,

For vsftpd, I believe the users are chrooted by default. Is this just anonymous, or individual logins?

For a quick test, change the perms on /data/share to 777 and you'll know if it's a permissions issue or a "jail" ftp issue.

Thanks,

Mike

sean_zhang · 05-07-2008, 03:46 AM

# anonymous login
lftp server
# /var/ftp/pub
> cd share
Access filaed:550 error failed to change directory

# local user login
lftp sean@server
# /home/sean/
> ls
>
# I canno see anything in this folder.

vsftpd.conf

Quote:

anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
anon_upload_enable=YES
anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO
anon_other_write_enable=NO
anon_world_readable_only=NO

dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_std_format=YES
ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
listen=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES