[lug] VSFTP Doesn't connect for some people

[Hugh Brown]

I just looked at the web site for vsftpd and the words passive/active
don't appear anywhere useful.  You can open up your firewall for the
active return connection (not a preferred solution), or see if there's a
way to get the client to connect passively.

Hugh

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:30 -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I looked in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf but didn't see anything about 
> "passive" there.  Should I be looking somewhere else?
> 
> George Sexton wrote:
> 
> >Probably passive is defaulting to ON for one, and OFF for the other. 
> >
> >George Sexton
> >MH Software, Inc.
> >http://www.mhsoftware.com/
> >Voice: 303 438 9585
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> >
> >  
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> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us 
> >>[mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Bill Thoen
> >>Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:18 PM
> >>To: Boulder Linux Users Group
> >>Subject: [lug] VSFTP Doesn't connect for some people
> >>
> >>I recently had a system makeover (to Fedora Core 4) and now 
> >>have my web 
> >>and FTP server behind a firewall machine (also running FC4.)  
> >>My VSFTP 
> >>server has been working fine for most people. But I've 
> >>noticed that one 
> >>of my clients can't connect using the latest IE from an XP 
> >>box (but she 
> >>can get through with the default Windows FTP client that you can run 
> >>from a command window), and several others around the world are 
> >>reporting that "your FTP doesn't work" or "I get error 425." 
> >>It all used 
> >>to work, and it does still work for most people, but 
> >>something needs a 
> >>good tweaking.
> >>
> >>Does anyone have any recommendations as to what I should 
> >>check? I'm not 
> >>even sure what I should be looking for, but now I'm pretty sure the 
> >>problem is on my end.
> >>
> >>- Bill Thoen
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