Network embarassment

[albi at scii.nl]

On Sun, 8 May 2005 19:47:54 +0930
Brian Astill <bastill at adam.com.au> wrote:

> I have made the appropriate entries in hosts, left hosts.deny blank,
> and tried  blank, ALL: ALL and specific listing of name, address, FQDN
> in hosts.allow. 

afaik hosts.deny is deprecated by the way, you should use hosts.allow
only

> Result in every case:  The computers can ping each
> other successfully, but ftp  returns "connection denied" whether I try
> to log on anonymously, as  user/password or root/password.  Like I
> said, I have forgotten something.

what ftp-server are you using ?
and how did you configure it ?

> Either that or there is a default firewall in ubuntu warty I need to
> bypass.

then please post the output of : sudo iptables -L -n
:)