[SWLUG] FTP and new server help!

[Dave Cridland]

On Sun Feb  5 20:12:53 2006, Neil Jones wrote:
> This leads me to think that FTP is not enabled on the box.
> I can SSH into it.
> 
> I can't find any records of my attempts on the servers logs either, 
> but
> I am not entirely sure how to fix it?
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong?

I'd agree that FTP is not enabled, and probably not installed, on the 
box, although there's a small chance it's being firewalled out with 
an explicit refusal.

If it's just for you, consider using SCP or SFTP, both should work 
"right now", and have surprisingly good platform coverage these days. 
(In fact, almost as good as FTP, so worth considering even if it's 
not just for you.)

Otherwise, you'll need to install an FTP server. There are quite a 
few, in particular vsftpd and ProFTPd are quite popular.

Dave.
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