FTPd help

SolarBear · 02-05-2005, 01:27 PM

Hi !

Right now, I'm looking for serious help on setting up my FTPd on my Debian box. I need something akin to "FTP daemons for dummies" because I've installed quite a few, followed a few tutorials I'd googled and up now, nada. I managed, once, to have a functional FTP server that allowed anonymous access. Period.

I've got config files from pretty much every ftpd around (wsftpd, vsftpd, pure-ftpd, etc.) but I'd never been able to set one up correctly.

So if you have suggestions on which daemon to choose as well as some good resources I could use, I'd be grateful.

Thanks a bunch !

bulliver · 02-05-2005, 02:38 PM

Well, in my experience proftpd is the easiest to set up. You are absolutely right, I have found docs for all the ftpds very confusing.

My advice: try proftpd with one of the example configs that best suits your purpose then work on that to get it exactly right. If you have a specific question on configuration just ask...

SolarBear · 02-05-2005, 03:02 PM

Okay, first question :

trying with the sample virtual host config file, I put the following line :

<VirtualHost ftp.solarbear.org>

figuring it would listen on ftp.solarbear.org (heh).

Still...

Code:

solarbear:/etc# proftpd
 - getaddrinfo 'ftp.solarbear.org' error: Name or service not known
 - getaddrinfo 'ftp.solarbear.org' error: Name or service not known
 - warning: unable to determine IP address of 'ftp.solarbear.org'
localhost.localdomain - getaddrinfo 'ftp.solarbear.org' error: Name or service not known
localhost.localdomain - warning: unable to determine IP address of 'ftp.solarbear.org'

No luck. What am I doing wrong here ?

bulliver · 02-05-2005, 03:07 PM

Do you have 'ftp.solarbear.org' properly setup in your DNS/host files? If not just drop the 'ftp.'

goozlq · 02-05-2005, 04:14 PM

Is the FTP server really running?
-Check this with top in the command line.

What may help is to install Webmin and to try to configure ProFTP with the web-interface.

At last:
Look at the .conf file of the FTP program. There can be some restrictions of the allowed hosts. Look for the part that has 127.0.0.0 in it.
Change that part or add your local network address like: 192.168.0.0

It worked for me some time ago.

PS. Maybe you can not login as root, which is a safe standard setting. Try another user, eventually in the group "root".

SolarBear · 02-07-2005, 02:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bulliver
Do you have 'ftp.solarbear.org' properly setup in your DNS/host files? If not just drop the 'ftp.'

Yeah, I'll need to add that to my DNS files... thanks for the heads up.

Quote:

Originally posted by goozlq
Is the FTP server really running?
-Check this with top in the command line.

It is running indeed ; it even mentions "accepting connections".

Quote:

What may help is to install Webmin and to try to configure ProFTP with the web-interface.

great idea !.... except webmin on my workstation can't detect webmin on the network for some reason (see my other thread).

Quote:

At last:
Look at the .conf file of the FTP program. There can be some restrictions of the allowed hosts. Look for the part that has 127.0.0.0 in it.
Change that part or add your local network address like: 192.168.0.0

No mention of allowed or restricted hosts in my config file.

I find it strange that something as complex as a webserver worked straight out of the box while a simple FTP one bugs me like hell.