Topic: FTP Login (nearly there)

[Damien]

Hello,

I have read nearly all the posts on this forum with regard to FTP access. The box is running version 5.6 and I'm using a d-link 604 broadband router with a cable modem.
When I use CuteFTP to login to the primary account, I get the login message successfully logged in, but on the right hand screen all I see is the hourglass.

In server manager I have FTP enabled for public access – normal usage. In the Cute settings I have tried it with PASV mode both on and off, still no success. Can anybody offer any suggestions on what I could try next?

Thanks in advance

[Lars]

use non-pasiv connection.
Or open a pasiv port range on your router.

// Lars
www.myass.dk

[Mike]

I am having the same problem with Ibays.
Are you trying to login to an Ibay or to the home directory of a user?
You will see that logging in to an Ibay gives more problems than logging in to the homedirectory of a user.

Try this:
ftp://user:password@ip-adres/home
or ftp://user:password@ip-adres
FTP port is 21 by default.
If you have another port open than try this:
ftp://user:password@ip-adres:portnumber/home
or ftp://user:password@ip-adres:portnumber

This works fine for me but the problem I have is that they changed something from version 5.5 to version 5.6.
I am completely unable to give a user read/write acces to an Ibay from the internet.

[Damien]

Thanks for the input;

I opened port 22 on the router, but the error message when I try to connect on this port is;
SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.1p1

[Mike]

Hi Damien

This message is a part of a Secure FTP connection.
See the problem I have, here:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=20041.msg78798#msg78798
Here you will see my problem with Secure FTP connection.
You will find the same line you are discribing.
The first part of the SSH (Secure) FTP connection is going O.K. there so you can see what it should say up to the part where the subsystem is starting.
Port 22 is the port for a secure FTP connection.
If you would like to connect to your E-Smith-FTP server through your Broadband Router from the internet, first try to connect to it by normal (unsecure) FTP.
In that case you should need to open port 21 on your Broadband Router.
You than can connect to your server directly from your internet browser like this:
ftp://user:password@ip-adres
I am using WS_FTP PRO 7.6 and have Passive Mode enabled.
I still do not know how to connect to my box with Secure FTP and I am not a linux-guru but I have found out a way to let people connect to an Ibay with some user I have created and give them read/write access to both the /home/files and /home/html by an FTP client.
I just have little spare time and I do not know your type of Broadband Router but I would like to help. To find the answer to your problem, I need more info.
Can you describe your network configuration and from where and through what you are connecting to your FTP?
I need the answer to the following questions:
- Are you only unable to connect to your servers FTP through your Broadband Router on the external interface of your E-Smith or are you completely unable to connect to your Servers FTP on both the internal and external Interface.
- If you are connecting through the external connection, do you have to go through your Broadband Router or does that type of Router have a internal Hub or Switch where your client is connected to.
- Are you able to connect to your FTP from the internal network or are you able to try this? This is the first you should try because it is the easyest to do.
- Have you tried another FTP-client, like WS_FTP ( www.ipswitch.com )?

[Damien]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for all the help, I could connect on the home network with CuteFTP but could not connect using the cable modem IP address or the domain name.

I downloaded WSFTP as you suggested and now it's working fine from the cable modem IP number or domain name. I can also connect to indivudal virtual sites.

Thanks again

[Mike]

Nice to hear that with my suggestions you have been able to solve the problem.

[Darren Mowry]

Thank you the articles in this forum gave me the solution to my login issue.