[svlug] Allowing ftp access

[Skip Evans]

Shoot! Check this out!

blue:/etc# iptables --list
iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table 
`filter': Module is wrong version
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

That's certainly a bummer!

Skip

Mark wrote:
> It probably gets stuck in your firewall (iptables/chains or similar), not in the hosts.allow settings.
> Did you check that yet?
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> MARK
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: svlug-bounces+msalists=gmx.net at lists.svlug.org 
>>[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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-- 
Skip Evans
Big Sky Penguin, LLC
61 W Broadway
Butte, Montana 59701
406-782-2240