LAN connection FC5 - RH7.2

[Per-Anton Rønning]

Thanks a lot, Nigel, setting up vsftpd absolutely did the trick. It has 
been a long day with much consentration,
so that may account for my mixing up the FTP client and server.  I may 
have dererved a rest now,
so I'll watch the news on TV. :-)

PA

Nigel Henry wrote:
> 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.
>
>