On Monday 18 September 2006 18:40, Per-Anton Rønning wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > You may have overlooked opening the FTP port on your FC5 box's firewall. > > Or you might even have neglected to set up and/or start the FTP server. > > > > Paul. > > At installation time I did not enable the firewall, but I have done that > now, and I have checked the FTP box. > On RH7.2 I'm running pure-ftpd, and "ps ax | grep gftp" shows > "gftp-gtk", whici I suppose is the FTP server in FC5. > I guess both must be running, otherwise I could not reach the RH7.2 from > the FC5 either. > Connecting to RH7.2 from FC5 works fine. But still, connection from > RH7.2 to FC5 is refused. > Do you mean that I have to set an FTP portnumber too in the forewall? I > found no way of doing that, there was just a checkbox to be marked. > BTW, Gnome was the only way i could access the firewall config tool , I > have been searcing in vain to find > its counterpart in KDE. Any hints? I really prefer to work with KDE. > > PA Gftp is the client on the FC5 machine. I usually install vsftpd, which is the FTP server. It isn't normally installed during the OS install, unless you select it during the custom install options. Nigel.
