The Tuesday 2005-02-22 at 11:41 -0500, James P. Bennett wrote:
When attempting to set up ftp, I tried to check by ftp'ing to my own workstation. Here's what I found (using pure-ftp), with ftpd running.
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220-Local time is now 20:35. Server port: 21. 220-Only anonymous FTP is allowed here
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Name (172.30.130.130:jbennett): root 230 Anonymous user logged in
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257 "/" is your current location ftp> cd home 550 Can't change directory to home: No such file or directory ftp>
What am I doing wrong?
Nothing. You have only allowed the user "anonymous". I would assume because each file therein is owned by a real user and
Carlos E. R. wrote: therefore "anonymous" does not have permission to view anything therein. I would like to hear from the gurus on the list why this is so too. -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================