Cannot FTP

[Shattia Moorthi]

dear experts,

Currenlty our company have 2 server.
Server DL380G7 install with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and another server RX6600 install HP-UX 11.31.

Now the problem was I cannot ftp from Rx6600 to DL380. Ping both server can, got reply.
If i ftp from linux to Hp-ux can ftp but from Hp-Ux to linux cannot ftp.

How to solve this problem?

Please advised.

Thanks.

[Shibin_2]

Check your Linux system, whether Port 21 is opened or not. Examine your /etc/services file.

Have you tried to ftp from your desktop ( windows machine ) to Linux server ?

[Steven Schweda]

"Cannot FTP" is not a useful problem
description. It does not say what you did.
It does not say what happened when you did
it. As usual, showing actual commands with
their actual output can be more helpful than
vague descriptions or interpretations.

[Shattia Moorthi]

From normal pc to linux can do ftp.
i use this command ftp
and then the out put was time out.

[Shibin_2]

You said, ftp was given you timed out from your normal PC.

That means, your FTP ports are not opened. Check your system, whether ports are opened for communication. Was there any logs recorded related to ftp?

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] As usual, showing actual commands with
> their actual output can be more helpful than
> vague descriptions or interpretations.

Was that not clear?

> i use this command ftp
> and then the out put was time out.

Does copy+paste not work on your system?

> From normal pc to linux can do ftp.

Define "normal pc".

If it works from a "normal pc" but not from
an HP-UX system, then there may be some kind
of firewall between the HP-UX system and the
Linux system (or _on_ the Linux system).

Can the HP-UX system make an FTP connection
to some other FTP server (anywhere)?

[Shattia Moorthi]

it works at "normal pc" but not from
an HP-UX system, the HP-UX system can ftp to another hp ux system (server).

normal pc can ftp to linux
normal pc can ftp to hp ux
hp ux server can ftp to another hp ux server.
linux server can ftp to hp ux server but
hp ux server cannot ftp to linux server

[Shibin_2]

Quoting your earlier post.

>> From normal pc to linux can do ftp.
i use this command ftp
and then the out put was time out.


What you mean by timed out? Can you paste the output? Later you said, possible from PC to Linux, but not possible from HP-UX to Linux. Can you paste the output ?

[P Arumugavel]

Hi,

Check your iptables rules in linux system.
Read the below thread also.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Networking/Help-on-iptable-ftp-and-OmniBack-can-t-work/m-p/2950371#M1704

Rgds...

[Shattia Moorthi]

Problem resolved.

Reconfigure fire wall policy.

Thank you.