[svlug] Allowing ftp access

[Mark]

It probably gets stuck in your firewall (iptables/chains or similar), not in the hosts.allow settings.
Did you check that yet?

MARK
 

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> [mailto:svlug-bounces+msalists=gmx.net at lists.svlug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Skip Evans
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:14 PM
> To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
> Subject: [svlug] Allowing ftp access
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I have one workstation on our network I want to 
> allow other machines rcp files from.
> 
> I thought from looking at the man page for 
> hosts.allow that an entry like the following would 
> do it:
> 
> in hosts.allow I put
> 
> ALL: ALL
> 
> But that didn't work.
> 
> As an experiment, I tried a setting I thought 
> would allow at least one machine to rcp files from 
> the workstation. I tried:
> 
> ALL: 192.168.0.100
> 
> But the rcp command for both of these would time 
> out and say "192.168.0.7: Connection refused".
> 
> What is the proper way to allow other machines to 
> rcp from another?
> 
> The full test command I tried was:
> 
> rcp 192.168.0.7:/home/sevans/footer.tpl .
> 
> 
> -- 
> Skip Evans
> Big Sky Penguin, LLC
> 61 W Broadway
> Butte, Montana 59701
> 406-782-2240
> 
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