Topic: FTP Uploads failing?

[PM]

Clients who are connecting to my FTP server are having their uploads cut off during transfer.  I can't find anything in any of the logs to suggest why this is happening, I don't have any quotas set on any accounts, and theres plenty of disk space on the server (over 10 gig according to df).  Any ideas why this might be happening?

[Ray Mitchell]

Dear PM
By default sme does not allow ftp uploads to ibays.
You can do ftp uploads to users home folders.
What is it that you are actually trying to do, have you been able to do it previously ?? What error messages do you get ?

Have you made any changes to your system to support ftp uploads, there has been quite a lot on this in the past in these forums.

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Phil M]

It is uploads to home folders that is having problems.  It has worked in the past, but now it doesn't.  I have made no changes regarding FTP whatsoever, and the fault seems intermittent.  I guess the problem is possibly some sort of connectivity issue.  Is there any way I can track what is happening when someone uploads, whilst they are doing it?  there is nothing in the transfer log or messages to suggest what it may be.

Ray Mitchell wrote:
>
> Dear PM
> By default sme does not allow ftp uploads to ibays.
> You can do ftp uploads to users home folders.
> What is it that you are actually trying to do, have you been
> able to do it previously ?? What error messages do you get ?
>
> Have you made any changes to your system to support ftp
> uploads, there has been quite a lot on this in the past in
> these forums.
>
> Regards
> Ray Mitchell

[Phil M]

I just conducted a test upload of an .iso file from my home computer to the ftp server at the office.  The iso is 400+megs.  At around 21meg into the upload, i got 'transfer stalled'.  No further transfer took place.  I'm guessing this is the same thing my clients are experiencing.  Why would this happen?  The server's connection should be under practically zero load at this time.  Connectivity with the web, email, and outgoing FTP to other remote sites is fine.

[Harris]

I had this same problem,

try setting:

TimeoutIdle 0
TimeoutNoTransfer 0
TimeoutLogin 0

in you're proftpd.conf

Regards,

 Harris

[PM]

I put those settings in my proftpd.conf.  upon restarting it, whenever i try to connect via ftp to the server i got the error 'no socket'

I removed those lines and restarted it again, and it went back to normal...

[Ralph]

Are you using a router, NAT?.. If so, check your settings. I used RIP 1 and RIP 1 compatible and it fixed this problem. When I set it to RIP 2, I get the exact same problem you are having, even when you map a drive it will only do a few megs before it stalls. Hope this helps.