Enabling FTP

Mark_667 · 02-20-2008, 05:14 AM

I need to enable FTP on my RHEL4 box but doing ftp localhost on the same box gives

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ftp: connect: connection refused

from a windows machine (where I need to be connecting from) I get:

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\M>ftp <IPADDRESSHERE>
> ftp: connect :Unknown error number
ftp>

enabling gsftp gives me this problem
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/L..._20632298.html

Simon Bridge · 02-20-2008, 05:42 AM

IIRC: gsftp is an ftp client, you need to use it with an ftp server.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rhel-4-492902/
... so how did you set up the ftp server?

Mark_667 · 02-20-2008, 08:13 AM

Thanks for the reply Simon, I found that I needed to install vsftpd and also that gsftp and vsftpd shouldn't be running at the same time. I thought it'd be able to handle FTP requests out of the box. In case you haven't guessed I had no idea how to setup a FTP server.