suse 10.0 and FTP Services

Since I have installed suse 10.0, I cannot get ftp to work properly. Others have indicated to try proftpd, but it doesn't meet my standards of being "secure". All ports are open on router, etc. This is what my server reports when a connection attempt is made to it: ftp 192.168.0.232 Connected to 192.168.0.232. Connection closed by remote host. No username or password prompt is noted. Should I re-install suse? or re-download the images? Thanks (Wow this group gets a lot of msgs)