Hello,

I'm having trouble getting ftp to work on Advanced Server release 2.1AS.

I verified with rpm that ftp is installed:

# rpm -qa | grep ftp
ftp-0.17-12
ncftp-3.0.3-6
gftp-2.0.8-2

However, I have no "ftp" file in /etc/xinetd.d.

Which more than likely explains this error:
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ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp>

I checked in the GUI for the "ftp" service (i.e. the "Service Configuration" icon) but I don't see it there (??).

NOTE: I did select the "medium" security install option when I did the initial install of AS.

NOTE: telnet/scp/ssh all work fine to/from this system.

It appears that an ftp switch needs to be thrown, but I'm not sure where.

I've tried manually making an "ftp" entry in /etc/xinetd.d (borrowed from the "telnet" file in the same location & changing the telnet references where appropriate) but it only resulted in ftp hanging when I tried to connect to this box after the hostname was reported.

Any/all input is (as always) greatly appreciated.

as i understand u dont have ftp server. im sure ftp gftp are client softwares. i dont know what ncftp is. u may prefer proftpd http://www.proftpd.org/

Hello and thanks for the reply.

The "PuTTY" tool looks to do what I need it to do:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s.../download.html

if u asked about ssh client for windowz, i could tell u about putty. but u asked about ftp server.

ssh is right choice. it is very secure. and dont forget to turn off telnet service.

im glad to hear that u solved your trouble.

Right, I should have just said that I would like to be able to connect to
this RH AS system using regular ftp. Until I learned about PuTTY, I thought ftp was the only way to do it from Windows.

Regards,