On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 Wenjie wrote:

>Sorry to bother you again. My vsftpd server doesn't seem to work after
>a RH upgrading (previously wuftpd). My problem is quite weird: I cannot
>access the ftp server even in the LAN! I checked the router, which also
>has a similar setting for httpd (and it is OK), there should be no
>problem as I can see.
>
>I checked locally and the ftp works. Anyone know of the problem?

If something works locally but not in lan then most likely it might be a
firewall issue. So you stop your firewall and try connecting. In my RH 9
box, I do '/etc/init.d/iptables stop' to stop it.

V.

Vwakes <vwakeNOSPAM100@softhome.net> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.55.0307201359470.11751@xnqnccn.cv arzna>...
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 Wenjie wrote:
>
> >Sorry to bother you again. My vsftpd server doesn't seem to work after
> >a RH upgrading (previously wuftpd). My problem is quite weird: I cannot
> >access the ftp server even in the LAN! I checked the router, which also
> >has a similar setting for httpd (and it is OK), there should be no
> >problem as I can see.
> >
> >I checked locally and the ftp works. Anyone know of the problem?
>
> If something works locally but not in lan then most likely it might be a
> firewall issue. So you stop your firewall and try connecting. In my RH 9
> box, I do '/etc/init.d/iptables stop' to stop it.
>
> V.

Thanks! I will try it later. BTW, how could I check that iptables is
running? And I hope you answer the problem correctly, I shoundn't have
thrown so much time on the poor router...


Best regards,
Wenjie