ok i giv eup on samba, i want to create an ftp share now...vsftpd
 

but i cant get it working!!
AREGGGHH
man linux , i been tryign to set up this stupid box fo a week
its so demoralizing i feel like a fucking idiot.

i made some changes to the vsftpd.conf
and etc/xinet.d/vsftp file

then i restarted xinet.

then when i do this

netstat -a | grep ftp

i get nothing....


how do i restart vsftp?

aye? I'm not too furmilliar with xinetd, are you sure it would show under ftpd, and not xinet or something? anyway, the best way to check would be to telnet 127.0.0.1 21, and see if you get connected, if not..it's not running..if that's the case look over your vsftpd configuration, I use proftpd, which has a option to either run standalone, or with inetd..if vsftpd has the same option perhaps you should make sure its set on xinetd.

how would i do that?

is there a command for me to just start vsftp

like
# vsftpd start now or soemthign liket thaT?



i cant get prftpd installed because it is loooking for some libsasl.7 or a file named like that

im using suse 8.2

well running it as standalone isn't suggested since it runs under port 1024, it'd have to be ran as root..anyway, yeah..I would think you'd just type `vsftpd` at the command line to start the server, (in stand-alone mode) what was in your xinetd file anyway (the /etc/xinet.d/vsftpd) that's suppose to hold information about the program (executable name, what port it listens on, etc, etc, etc)