I looked back through a few months of messages on this list and so far have not seen anything to address this anonymous ftp error: I am having the following error accessing SuSE 9.0 server from the internet after loging in as anonymous with jdc@CharltonCorp.com as password. ftp> ls 200 EPRT command successful. 435 Can't build data connection: Illegal seek. ftp> When I login from the local network as anonymous it works fine. The only problem I had with configuration is that in the xinetd configuration for ftpd, the user and group come up as --default--.  I cannot change these and if I select 'accept' it gives me an error and I have to exit using the cancel button. The /etc/xinetd.d/ftpd file is: # default: off # description: The ftpd server serves FTP connections. It uses normal, \ #       unencrypted usernames and passwords for authentication. This ftpd is \ #       a port of the OpenBSD ftpd to Linux. service ftp {         socket_type     = stream         protocol        = tcp         wait            = no         user            = root         server          = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd         server_args     = -l -l -d         disable         = no } I added the -l -l -d to get more logging, but it doesn't have any affect on /var/log/xinetd.log ro /var/log/ftpd The /etc/hosts.allow is: in.ftpd : ALL : ALLOW in.ftpd : UNKNOWN : ALLOW As a part of testing I added the follow /etc/ftpaccess file: class local real,guest,anonymous 198.162.100.* class remote anonymous * autogroup ftp remote log transfers inbound,outbound