topic Re: FTP does not work for a user in Operating System - HP-UX

FTP does not work for a user

joe_91 — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:58:58 GMT

a user cannot FTP between his machine and our HP-UX server running 11.0. he can login via ftp but does not see anything or able to put anything. what could be wrong?

Thanks

Joe

Re: FTP does not work for a user

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:01:48 GMT

Sounds like a permissions issue.

Does the user have permission to read/write in the directory?

Re: FTP does not work for a user

joe_91 — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:08:16 GMT

yes, it is a SAP id and they have permissions

THanks

Joe

Re: FTP does not work for a user

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:12:40 GMT

Are you getting any error messages? What happens when tries to do a 'dir' from within FTP?

Re: FTP does not work for a user

joe_91 — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:13:20 GMT

sorry, this does not look like a permission issue

Thanks

Joe

Re: FTP does not work for a user

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:13:42 GMT

The next thing to check is ftpaccess.

Re: FTP does not work for a user

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:14:04 GMT

Shalom Joe,

Had a simlar issue in linux last week. The /etc/shells file did not include the shell that was in /etc/passwd

SEP

Re: FTP does not work for a user

Matti_Kurkela — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:28:28 GMT

Another possible cause:
FTP uses two network connections: the control connection is set up when logging in, and a separate data transfer connection is set up each time a file is transferred, *and* each time a directory listing is transferred.

The symptoms fit to the case where a firewall allows the FTP control connection, but does not allow the data connection.

There is two different ways to set up the FTP data transfer connection: these are called "active" and "passive" FTP. They have very different requirements for firewalls.

A more detailed explanation can be found here:
http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html

Most WWW browsers use only passive FTP when accessing ftp:// URLs. Dedicated FTP client programs can often use either mode, but the correct mode must be selected manually.