Good Morning,

I am learning Linux and especially the scripting and server administration aspect. I recently installed TFTPD on a Debian Lenny box and was satisfied with the results. The only drawback that I could find was that a file had to exist before TFTPD would allow a transfer. I understand that this is standard practice however I was wondering if there was a way around this. I am using this TFTP server to backup configurations and IOS images on our Cisco devices in a private network. If there isn't anyway to do this is there a different TFTP server that I could install that would support this functionality. I have read the man pages without much luck and doing Google searches hasn't yielded many results. I really appreciate your help and if there is anything you need from me please let me know.

/etc/inetd.conf file
Permissions on /tftpboot

I can't figure out what you are saying.

Did you try a "put" of some file to the server and it failed? Is that user you connected with a user that can use and write to the drive?

I know this is aix example but similar ideas in linux. I just can't find a better example.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...cmds5/tftp.htm

Dunno if your OS needs a users or hosts to be allowed.

I am sorry for the confusion this is not a TFTP service question but a TFTPD application question. I have configured several TFTP servers from AIX to iSeries to Windows servers. My question was is there a configuration specific to TFTPD that would allow a file to be 'put' to the TFTPD server. The TFTP service protocol generically does not allow a put to take place unless the file already exists. However on other TFTP servers you can change this setting. I was hoping this was the case for TFTPD on Debian (lenny). If it isn't possible I was hoping there would be another software package that I could install that would be able to accomplish this. I hope this helps and if there is anything else you need from me please feel free to let me know.