FTP problems

[Mike_17]

I am having problems connecting to our ftp server. I am getting connection refused. Any hints as to why, everything looks fine....

[Mark Mitchell]

Check to see if you need a logon id to get access or if not, look to see if the system uses an ftp.allow file,

[Krishna Prasad]

Is the ftp service configured to start via inetd?

Are you using anyonomous ftp? restricted ftp?

It could be many things...

[Helen French]

Hi Mike,

Which OS ? Is it happening to everybody ? Which ftp server ?

Check these threads too:


http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=8f1e0c5d1be8129291/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000046112375

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=8f1e0c5d1be8129291/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000032876796

HTH,
Shiju

[Mike_21]

I did a #inetd -c to reconfigure the internet daemon, everything is working but look have a strange entry in the syslog.log.

Feb 26 14:14:44 inetd[705]: Rereading configuration

Feb 26 14:14:47 inetd[705]: registrar/tcp: Unknown service

Feb 26 14:14:47 inetd[705]: Configuration complete

[Mark Greene_1]

are you going through a firewall? if so, make sure that ports 20 and 21 are open on the firewall.

HTH
mark

[Ron Kinner]

Look at
netstat -a |grep ftp
on the FTP server. Is it listening?

tcp 0 0 *.ftp *.* LISTEN

If not then you have to look in /etc/inetd.conf

you need
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd
at a minimum.

Then in /etc/services you need
ftp-data 20/tcp # File Transfer Protocol (Data)
ftp 21/tcp # File Transfer Protocol (Control)

Obviously you also need a file called /usr/lbin/ftpd.
-r-xr--r-- 1 bin bin 151552 May 5 2001 /usr/lbin/ftpd*

then
inet -c

Now do netstat -a |grep ftp again and see if you are listening.


Ron