I have a cable modem that feeds into a linksys cablemodem/dsl router. Basically, I just setup port forwarding (or so I thought) to forward ftp ports to port 21. I tried it on this machine (xp) and also my linux machine, but when people ftp in, they get a socket error, is there some sort of configuration file im missing or a piece that I didnt get right?

Do you mean forwarding on your boxes or on the router? If you mean the boxes, that won't do.

You'll have to log into the router, go to the section for port forwarding and tell it what port and what box you want it to go to.

I did that, the person who tries to connect from the outside can, but it cant get a socket or something so it wont list whats there

Do you have the appropriate service running on the linux box?

yeap, it all worked fine when i was still at school, now ive got this cable modem stuff and it doesnt seem to want to work correctly

Is the Cable Company blocking incoming requests on port 21? They tend not to allow servers of any type. I know here (verizon) they block 21, 80, 8080 etc. to keep you from running services and acting as a proxy.

Set your ftp server on a different port and reconfigure the router and give it a whirl

Good point.

well, they dont seem to block httpd, which is the one they bitched about over the phone, and they also dont block sshd, cuz they both work fine, heres the text log i got from ftping


** CuteFTP Pro 3.0 - build Nov 4 2002 ***

STATUS:> Connecting to ftp server xxxxxxxxxx:21 (ip = xxxxxxxxxxx)...
STATUS:> Socket connected. Waiting for welcome message...
220 (vsFTPd 1.1.3)
STATUS:> Connected. Authenticating...
COMMAND:> USER anonymous
331 Please specify the password.
COMMAND:> PASS *****
230 Login successful. Have fun.
STATUS:> Login successful.
COMMAND:> PWD
257 "/"
STATUS:> Home directory: /
COMMAND:> FEAT
500 Unknown command.
STATUS:> This site doesn't support the 'features' command.
COMMAND:> REST 100
350 Restart position accepted (100).
STATUS:> This site can resume broken downloads.
COMMAND:> REST 0
350 Restart position accepted (0).
COMMAND:> PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,101,159,89)
COMMAND:> LIST
STATUS:> Connecting ftp data socket 192.168.1.101:40793...
ERROR:> Can't connect to remote server. Socket error = #10060.


So I think it has to deal with an issue about the 40793 port, but i have no idea how to handle that

At a guess I think it has more to do with the "FEAT" command that your site does not support. What ftp server are you running, WU-ftp or proftp?

Im running vsFTPd on redhat9

Ok a couple of dumb questions. Have you tried ftping into the box yourself (within your network)? And have you checked the configuration of vxFTPd..... I"m not that familiar with it.

have your buddy enable Passive FTP on his client