With vsftpd or proftpd (doesn't matter) running on my fc3 server I can ftp between a Windoze XP command box and the server with no problems. Dual-booted on the same machine an FC3 terminal session ftp gives the following (on any machine I have tried it on, to the same server): Connected to myserver.net. 220 FTP Server ready. 500 AUTH not understood 500 AUTH not understood KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type [login] 230 Anonymous login ok, restrictions apply. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ...now I can pwd and cd, but cannot ls, get or send. ftp> ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (xx,xxx,xxx,xx,xxx,xxx). ftp: connect: No route to host ftp> pwd 257 "/pub" is current directory. THE QUESTION: My guess is that the FC3 ftp is limitiing what the user can do due to authentication failures, is there anything I can change on the server so that it will accept the default FC3 ftp the same way it accepts the default Wondoze ftp? I *hate* having to tell users they have to use a Windoze ftp and not Linux, *or* to suggest any changes to the client ftp settings. My preferred ftp server is proFTP, only because of Webmin support. Thanks in advance for any suggestions / pointers. bob