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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp revisited
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:17:09
Message-Id: 20050820051222.GC27684@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT - vsftp revisited by Michael Sullivan
1 There's gotta be an option for vsftp to give more verbose logs, right?
2
3 Also, ask your customer for his logs. Back in the days when I was
4 using windows any self-respecting graphical ftp client would have a
5 little window showing the connecting status/log. That could really
6 help.
7
8 Also, ask your customer to try login using the commandline ftp from
9 XP. We'd at least like to know it is not a problem wit his client.
10
11 W
12
13 On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:21:55PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
14 > I have a user who can't upload files to his account on my server. He
15 > can connect and log in, he can see the files and directories in his home
16 > directory, but he can't interact with them. I can log into my personal
17 > account via the external IP of my router and interact with my personal
18 > account just fine, so I'm not sure why he can't use his. Here's the
19 > information I've been able to gather:
20 >
21 > He is using FireFTP as his client on Windows XP.
22 >
23 > He can log into the FTP server, his home directory loads, but he can't
24 > move from his home directory to any of the subdirectories under his home
25 > directory.
26 >
27 > Here is the log output from his most recent attempt, taken
28 > from /var/log/vsftpd.log:
29 >
30 > Fri Aug 19 21:10:08 2005 [pid 23592] CONNECT: Client "68.226.26.135"
31 > Fri Aug 19 21:10:09 2005 [pid 23591] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client
32 > "68.226.26.135"
33 > Fri Aug 19 21:10:51 2005 [pid 23595] CONNECT: Client "68.226.26.135"
34 > Fri Aug 19 21:10:51 2005 [pid 23594] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client
35 > "68.226.26.135"
36 > Fri Aug 19 21:11:32 2005 [pid 23609] CONNECT: Client "68.226.26.135"
37 > Fri Aug 19 21:11:32 2005 [pid 23608] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client
38 > "68.226.26.135"
39 > Fri Aug 19 21:12:12 2005 [pid 23614] CONNECT: Client "68.226.26.135"
40 > Fri Aug 19 21:12:12 2005 [pid 23613] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client
41 > "68.226.26.135"
42 > Fri Aug 19 21:12:53 2005 [pid 23617] CONNECT: Client "68.226.26.135"
43 > Fri Aug 19 21:12:53 2005 [pid 23616] [acsacsx] OK LOGIN: Client
44 > "68.226.26.135"
45 >
46 >
47 > I have no idea even how to start solving this problem. I don't have
48 > access to a computer outside my network with Internet access, so I've
49 > only been able to try connecting to the same address he does, except
50 > from inside the network. Can anyone help me out here?
51 > -Michael Sullivan-
52 >
53 >
54 >
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