--- Mar 4/8/09, Joop Beris
Da: Joop Beris
Oggetto: Re: [opensuse] HOW TO ENABLE A USER TO DOWNLOAD A HUGE FILE FROM MY LAPTOP A: opensuse@opensuse.org Data: Martedì 4 agosto 2009, 13:08 On Tuesday 04 August 2009 07:15:59 Maura Monville wrote: He has all acces rights to the project directory.
All access rights how? Does he have a local account on your computer?
Yes. He has
Have you shared the directory using a certain protocol?
I do not know how to do that. I just created an account for him and gave him full access rights to my /home directory using chmod.
Is there a firewall between the two systems?
I did not set up any firewall. Maybe SuSE does that by default ?
Are they on the same network? Yes. The university network.
What OS does he run? He can run either Linux/Ubuntu or Windows. When he attempted to access my computer I assume he was running Linux (his favourite OS)
Which client is he using? He said he succeeded in connecting to my system through the IP address. The ftp session opened up but was losed by the host (that is my computer)
What exactly is the error message? I do not know the exact error message. It is basically what I reported above. My computer rejected the ftp connection he started.
Are you able to ping him and vice versa? Well, he could log in his account on my computer. I did not try to ping his machine. I will
There are too many variables in this equation to be able to produce any sort of answer. Please provide more information.
I hope I have clarified some doubts. Preumably I have to enable certain mechanisms, throught Yast, which I took for granted as enabled already. Thak you, Maura
HTH,
Joop
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