LAN connection FC5 - RH7.2

[Nigel Henry]

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.