vsftp unable to access

[Knute Johnson]

Keith Clark wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 17:05 -0700, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote:
>> Hi Keith,
>>
>>> I don't seem to be able to connect to my newly setup ftp server.
>>> When I try to connect to it via a remote site, it says, connection
>>> refused.
>>>
>>> I have tried opening up port 20 and 21 on my router and still no luck.
>> And are ports 20 and 21 open on the server running the ftp software?  
>> If you port scan that does it show them open? What does iptables tell  
>> you?
>>
>> -Jason
>>
>>
> 
> Port scan shows:
> 
> 21
> 139
> 445
> 631
> 
> All open.
> 
> The funny thing is, if I try my isp issued ip address, not the machines
> local ip address it shows only port 80 open, even though I have not
> opened it, and port 21 and 20 do not show as open, even though I've
> opened them.
> 
> Keith
> 

Is vsftpd running?  Do you have any other things that would prevent you 
from logging on to your ftp server such as having tcp wrappers enabled 
in the vsftpd.conf file?  Do you have local_enable=YES in your 
vsftpd.conf file?  If you do, can you connect from the server machine to 
itself?

-- 

Knute Johnson

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than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be 
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