I finally got my ftp server running. I am wondering if there is a way for the user to use symbollic links in his directory. I am trying to link a folder entitled "Images". This is on a mounted harddrive -- /mnt/shares

The fstab for /mnt/shares is
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/shares vfat user,umask=000 0 0

Whenever i try to cd to Images I get an error that says
"550 Failed to change directory."

Any help is greatly appreciated,
Thanks

*bump*
I am looking into this problem as well.

I have just setup vsftpd in Fedora Pre-3 and have it set such that chroot_local_users=YES, however, for some users, I want them to be able to link to my CDROM (/mnt/cdrom). How do I do it? I tried creating a symlink but that doesn't seem to fly. All permissions look like they are set correctly. Is this a vsftpd thing or is this a config problem?

I have a feeling it is because I have my users chrooted or that vsftpd has taken out this functionality to make a safer system.

Your comments are welcome and I'll post if I have a solution.
J.

I have the exact same problem. I don't want users to be able to browse my entire computer, yet I would like to give them access to ONE directory: /mnt/win_share

Any Ideas?

looks like we're getting bumped again.... same problem. I have several shared folders from my old (blech-windows) ftp server that I have mounted in /mnt/nfsr that I want shared in my vsftpd server. My users are chroot'd, too.

okay, I just found a solution thanks to aafeee (I think was his name)

mount --bind /path/you/want/to/include /path/to/vsftpd/docroot/subdir

works for me-I just checked it out.

Thanks RinGz and aafeee. I will try this solution when I get home.

How does this work across multiple users? For example, I have users chrooted to their home directories
/home/usera
/home/userb
And I want to share my cdrom, /mnt/cdrom, with both of them via ftp.
From reading the man page, I suspect it would look like this...
mount --rbind /mnt/cdrom /home/usera
mount --rbind /mnt/cdrom /home/userb
(I will verify if this is correct when I get home)

The man page also says that this feature is only available for kernel's 2.4 and greater (fine for me but might be helpful for future readers)

Thanks again,
J.

As luck would have it, I had left a CD in my cdrom and was able to remotely test this.

YaY. It works!
Thanks RinGz for posting and aafeee for answering.

Regards,
J.

JordanH, I think this might work, but just to make sure, I'd do:
mount --rbind /mnt/cdrom /home/usera/cdrom
mount --rbind /mnt/cdrom /home/userb/cdrom

that's essentially what I'm doing 'cept with ftp.

oh, just realized that you have a type (that I quoted)
it's --bind not --rbind

oh, and one more thing: the person I got this from was affeee not aafeee. just wanted to make sure the right person got credit

RinGz, just to clarify....

--bind does not mount any submounts
--rbind does mount all submounts

For the CDROM it probably doesn't matter which you use because there are usually no submounts; it doesn't hurt to use --rbind.

For instance... if you have 3 cdroms mounted as such
/mnt/cdroms/cd1
/mnt/cdroms/cd2
/mnt/cdroms/cd3

Then instead of mounting each CDRom to each home/user directory, you could just mount once.
mount --rbind /mnt/cdroms /home/usera/cdroms
mount --rbind /mnt/cdroms /home/userb/cdroms

with --bind you would need 6 mount statements instead of 2. *shrug* Call me lazy.