I am fairly new to the linux world and I have spent nearly 10 hours on this problem. I have conceded and decided to ask those that are more knowledgeable than I.

I am setting up a Fedora 12 command line based ftp server and connecting to it through a Fedora 12 GUI. I can login with my user "lance" and can get any file I put in the /var/ftp folder. When I try and put a file I receive a 227 entering passive mode 553 could not create file. I have tried this with multiple files on 2 different machines and keep running into this wall.

Information on what I have done thus far:
Stopped Ip tables
Disabled SElinux

vsftpd.conf

anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=077
anon_upload_enable=YES
anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_std_format=YES
dirlist_enable=YES
no_anon_password=YES
file_open_mode=0777
guest_enable=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd/user_list
tcp_wrappers=YES

The files that I have been trying sending I have been changing there permissions to chmod 777.

I am sure its something simple and stupid I messed up on the way but this is how we learn... Thanks for taking the time to read this and all help is greatly appreciated and needed.

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/ftp ?

That did it, Thank you so much, you saved me from myself lol

It seems your problem is resolved so I would advise you to mark the thread as "solved"