sending big files

Pedroski · 10-24-2010, 02:14 AM

Because vsftp created /var/ftp/pub there. I thought it was supposed to be there!

Where can I put /ftp/pub? Anywhere??

I created: /home/pedro/Public/ftp/ and then edited vsftp.conf as below. But my friend still ends up in /var/ftp/

# The directory which vsftpd will try to change
# into after an anonymous login. (Default = /var/ftp)
anon_root=/home/pedro/Public/ftp/

Do you know why? I did restart the server.

[root@peterlaptop pedro]# service vsftpd restart
Shutting down vsftpd: [ OK ]
Starting vsftpd for vsftpd:

mecelec415 · 10-24-2010, 04:26 AM

make him a user on the system hes connecting to and put the file you giving him in his home where hes going to connect to.
so he can log in with a user and a password.
the opera option would have been easier you could have posted him a link in chat

John VV · 10-24-2010, 04:22 PM

i would have just made a torrent
and mailed the tiny *.torent file
and had them grab the torrent

Pedroski · 10-24-2010, 08:55 PM

torrent sounds good, but I don't know how to do it. Also, I would like to make vsftp work, just for the experience.

I made a file ftp in /home/pedro/Public/ftp/uploads, but my friend can't see it. His ftp client keeps seeing /var/ftp/uploads. He cannot write to that. See above.

I have changed vsftp.conf to # The directory which vsftpd will try to change
# into after an anonymous login. (Default = /var/ftp)
anon_root=/home/pedro/Public/ftp/ and restarted the server, but no joy.

Any more tips?

Alexia_Beretta · 10-25-2010, 11:18 PM

I needed to remedy a similar situation some time ago and found an appropriate method after coming to realization that the bulk of free file hosting services online would not accommodate file sizes that large.

If you just open a gmx mail account you will be given 2Gb of free storage for any file type and through this can give the password to the person you wish to transfer data to, in so doing allowing them to retrieve the content directly from the mail server.

Pedroski · 10-26-2010, 04:20 AM

That's good, but I do like to try to get things to work under Linux. I can already let people download. It's just the upload that I can't get.

Any tips??

Alexia_Beretta · 10-27-2010, 12:28 AM

Setting up a one-shot webserver on port 8080 to present a file:

Code:

{ echo -ne "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n\r\n"; cat your_video.avi; } | nc -l -p 8080

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat

Pedroski · 10-27-2010, 07:00 PM

Thanks, that's very interesting. But I still want vsftp to work!

Do you have any idea why my friend can't upload, say to /var/ftp/pub/uploads ? The permissions of uploads are

rwx-rw-rw Is this an SE linux issue? ftp is allowed in my firewall. Is it because /var belongs to root? If I change the permissions of /var/ftp/pub/uploads will that not work if /var is root?