ncftp connection refused

dansimon · 08-20-2013, 02:26 AM

Hi, I am trying to connect one Slackware machine to another using ncftp. sftp works but when I try with ncftp I get the error message "Could not connect to 10.253.3.141: Connection refused". I tried ncftp 10.253.3.141, ncftp -u myuser -p mypassword 10.253.3.141, but nothing worked.

Any help would be very appreciated!

unSpawn · 08-20-2013, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by dansimon

Hi, I am trying to connect one Slackware machine to another using ncftp. sftp works but

Please be careful: SFTP means SSH while FTPS means FTP over SSL. FTP and SSH are clearly unrelated protocol and daemon-wise.

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Originally Posted by dansimon

when I try with ncftp I get the error message "Could not connect to 10.253.3.141: Connection refused".

First reflex IMHO should be to check the servers FTP log, system logs and auth records, then the firewall rule set and then tcp_wrappers for clues.

dansimon · 08-23-2013, 04:35 PM

Thanks, I will do that. It just seems weird that sftp/filezilla/etc.. works out of the box with the correct username/password/server/port, while ncftp does not. But I might have overlooked something embarrassingly simple..

blacksmith_tb · 06-26-2015, 02:34 PM

Sadly the answer is the there's no SFTP support in NcFTP. A possible alternative is yafc, however, which should be available via your package manager of choice.