hello y'all. hope you had a great day. am having troublr running "ftp" on my system, when i type in, , get into the, when i try to use, (note ofcourse i typed in the full right ip addy, this is jst an example), its tells me, i obviously have connection to the same ip through, so am wondering why i cant connnect to the ip through, . i go to my, but cant seem to find the ftp service amongst the services running.found, on the list but no ftp. so am wondering why???

Also i would like to be corrected if am wrong or better still enlighthened, i also thought maybe i didnt have the, installed, when i queried my, using , ftp was listed as being installed. so now am so puzzled would love a quick response please

My distro is

You're not clear when you're talking about cmds on the server and cmds on the client.
Also, please actually copy/paste the cmds/output directly rather than describing them.

Having said that, vsftpd is an ftp server and should be only on the server end, not the client.
You will also have to check that it is up and running
then check server firewall is open
This has nothing to do with ssh (although if ssh works, you could use scp or sftp to copy stuff instead).

Also, post the Linux distro for both systems.

HTH

hello all, Thanks chrism01 for your reply. All my questioned were not answered, i also asked if all services, and i mean, running in a Linux system are always in the, would like that to be confirmed. Then is there also a particular command to check if a is opened instead of listing the whole ports through or through . looking forward to reading soon.

kind regards

Quoting random words makes your posts rather hard to read.

The vsftod program is an FTP server implementation. You can start it with "/etc/init.d/vsftpd start". However, if you have a firewall running (check "iptables -L") then it is likely set up to block FTP traffic. If you Google around a bit, you can easily find instructions for how to make iptables pass FTP traffic.

However, if you have ssh working to the server, there's a much easier and more secure way to transferring files! Simply use the "sftp" command, which runs over ssh, instead of ftp.

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hello y'all. A big thanks to btmiller, i think have been able to figure it out, and i would learn to do less quoting of my word when i post. As i always say, the forum rocksssss!!!

cheers