<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> With your firewall up, have you run nmap to see if port 21 is actually open? How are you going about configuring your firewall? Are you using a GUI interface, lokkit or something else? Have you gone to youe iptables file to see what is actually getting loaded? Richard Gertjan Vinkesteijn wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid4073ED39.6040002@xs4all.nl"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> Hello friends, I have a problems with vsftp and my firewall, if I switch the firewall off it works like a champ. The two ports 20 and 21 are open, does it have anything to do with PAM or NAT or so? Thank you in advance <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Vink </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>