[SOLVED] URL ftp://<my_servers_IPaddr> works with Chrome, but not so much with Firefox and IE.

DavidDiepUSC · 06-25-2014, 12:25 PM

Hi everyone,

I have my RHEL FTP server set up to allow for both userlist and anonymous access.

Everything works perfectly using Chrome as the browser, as when I enter ftp://<ipaddress>/ it comes back with the default directory listing.

However, for Firefox, it asks for a UserID and Password.

And much worse, for IE, it can't even display the page.

Has anyone ran into this one before and have some insightful suggestions?

Thanks!

DJ Shaji · 06-25-2014, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidDiepUSC

I have my RHEL FTP server set up to allow for both userlist and anonymous access.

Yep.

You have to type ftp://anonymous@mysite to login anonymously. The same might work in IE too.

DavidDiepUSC · 06-25-2014, 01:10 PM

DJ,

I tried that and it comes back with a dialogue box asking for a userID and password. This is what I have for vsftpd.conf:

anonymous_enable=YES
no_anon_password=YES
anon_root=/odcdocs/Userguides/OCTO User Guides
local_root=/odcdocs/Userguides/OCTO User Guides
userlist_deny=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES

Any suggestions? Thanks.

DJ Shaji · 06-25-2014, 02:19 PM

What version of firefox and vsftpd are you using? I just checked and my firefox takes me directly to the directory listing for anonymous when I use ftp://mysite. If I use ftp://user@mysite then it asks for a password. I have the latest firefox and vsftpd 2.3.5

DavidDiepUSC · 06-25-2014, 02:28 PM

DJ, i'm using firefox 30.0 and vsftpd is at 2.2.2.

Apparently its also doing it from Chrome (I had previously entered a userid and it was cached).

DJ Shaji · 06-25-2014, 03:48 PM

Are you sure the anonymous login is really enabled? Did you restart vsftp after changing the configuration file? Try logging in as "anonymous" with a blank password and see if that works.

DavidDiepUSC · 06-26-2014, 06:55 AM

Hmm... it did fail with a 530 permission denied. Not sure what it is then... I've even rebooted.

Thanks!

DavidDiepUSC · 07-01-2014, 01:57 PM

Just in case anyone is curious, here is what I did to resolve this:

Made sure these parameters were specified:

anonymous_enable=YES
no_anon_password=YES
anon_root=$path
local_root=$path
userlist_deny=NO
userlist_enable=YES

Then updated the permissions for $path:
chmod 555 /$path

added "anonymous" to user_list