[sllug-members]: Anonymous VSFTPD

[Alain Bertrand]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 2:31 pm, Brandon Toone wrote:
> Logging into my ftp server via IE is giving me trouble.
>
> I set up vsftpd to be an anonymous internal ftp server for work and
> everything seems to be working fine (I can read and write file like I
> expect, use "ftp://192.168.1.8" in Konqueror for access from my Linux box
> and even use CuteFTP for my windows clients) except that I can't connect to
> the server using IE.  I've tried playing around with some different URL
> formats and even tried telling explorer "File > Login as... > Anonymous
> User" but it still doesn't seem to work.
>
> I can even connect via a DOS prompt just fine.
>
> Am I still using the wrong URL or is there something about the way I set up
> my directives and the server's interaction with IE that is causing the
> problem?  Ideas?

I don't know that much about FTP, but I did once have a problem accessing 
someone else's FTP server from only some programs.  The problem turned out to 
be the server not handling passive FTP correctly.  I can't remember if only 
passive worked, or if passive is what didn't work.  I was finally able to 
confirm that this was the problem with lftp, which will do either passive FTP 
or whatever not passive FTP is called (active?).  

The other thing you might try (and I suspect that you have already) is to 
watch the log output from the server when IE tries to connect, and when 
something else succeeds, and compare them.  

Good luck.  


Alain