Mark Hensler — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 17:07:23 +0000

My /etc/ftpgroups and /etc/ftphosts files are basically empty (only commented lines). Is that OK or should there be something in there?

Mark Hensler — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:53:29 +0000

nike has been helping me via ICQ. He installed WU FTP on his linux, and got errors.

I have Version wu-2.6.1-16

I went to http://www.wu-ftpd.org/ and found a link to sone 'fixes' here. One that caught my eye was 'pasv-port-allow-correction.patch'. What deos this do?

Thanks for the help guys!

nike_guy_man — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:48:48 +0000

Mairving...
Check out http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/
I installed wu-ftpd too and i got the same error...
There are some sample config files but I didn't know what to do with any of them.
I can FTP 127.0.0.1 and connect and all, but not from another box, or even if I ftp to the linux IP from the linux.

mairving — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:23:50 +0000

Mark, I've been playing around a bit with this. I have a Linux box and a Windows one also. The Windows machine also has Linux on it. When I ftp from Linux to Linux, no problem. But when I ftp from Windows to Linux, I get a similar message to the one you are getting. In my logs I also see this message
getpeername (wu.ftpd): Socket operation on non-socket

I have looked on wu.ftp site and they show the problem but not really a fix other than an upgrade.

What version are you running?
wu.ftpd -V

nike_guy_man — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 22:25:58 +0000

I think you might have to add the windows IP to /etc/hosts in order for it to work...
Try that and tell us what happens then.
I've never used WU FTP so I don't know how it would work...
What type of router do you have set up?

Mark Hensler — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:56:16 +0000

I tried the DOS thing...

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>ftp 192.168.1.203
Connected to 192.168.1.203.
Connection closed by remote host.

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>

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WS_FTP already has that passive box checked.
I looked at that log file....

Aug  1 14:30:23 host ftpd[1021]: FTP session closed
Aug  1 14:37:34 host ftpd[1026]: FTP session closed
Aug  1 14:40:00 host kernal: es1371: unloading
Aug  1 14:48:17 host ftpd[1037]: FTP session closed

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What should the /etc/hostsfile look like? Here's mine:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost

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nike_guy_man, I need my linux box to run a FTP server... Other people will need to get in my box from outside my router.

mairving — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:13:37 +0000

Open up a DOS window.
Type in ftp (ip address)
enter valid username
enter valid password.

This will determine if it is a WS_FTP error or not.

The logs should be in /var/log/messages.
If you open it with vi, hold down the
shift G and it will take you to the bottom of the file.

The "Blocking call canceled" error can be helped in the WS_FTP by selecting the Use Passive Transfer Mode checkbox on the Session tab of the Options dialog box, and clicking the Set As Default button.

nike_guy_man — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 17:43:06 +0000

Did you edit /etc/hosts to allow the Windows IP to connect?
I had the same problem before.
Also, if that doesn't work, you can always put a FTP daemon on the windows and ftp to that and use mget or recv