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Problem with vsftpd

Hello. New member!

Well, I wanted to start an FTP server on my computer, mainly for curiosity, but hopefully also for practical purposes.

My friend told me I have to port forward in order to run an ftp server, and I have an SMC barricade router, and I followed directions found over on portforwardDOTcom/english/routers/port_forwarding/SMC/7004ABR/FTPDOThtm

after that, i played around with the config file a bit.... And then I tried ftp localhost:

Quote:

root@ubuntu:/home/mike # ftp localhost
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
220 Welcome to Mike's FTP closet of useless crap.
Name (localhost:root): ftpsecure
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Here comes the directory listing.
226 Directory send OK.
ftp> mkdir asdf
257 "/asdf" created
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Here comes the directory listing.
drwx------ 2 1001 1001 4096 Jul 28 06:08 asdf
226 Directory send OK.
ftp>

so yeah.. that ran fine. Then I headed on over to ipaddress.com and got my address.. and then i told my friend to go to ftpCOLONSLASHSLASH69.211.xx.xx [i can't post URLs] and he said that it says Connection Refused. Please help me out...
Keep in mind i'm a :newbie: w00t awesome smiley.. lol

thank you!

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Originally posted by munkies
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Are you behind a firewall? If you are, you'll want to let port 21 through from the outside.

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d 0/0 -s 0/0 --dport 21 -j ACCEPT

hey, I just tried

Quote:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d 0/0 -s 0/0 --dport 21 -j ACCEPT

and it hasn't changed anything... I forwarded my router's port 21 to my port 21 (not sure if I mentioned that already). This makes me feel sad=( someone please help!!! thanks in advance, and thanks for posting a reply already