From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 26 19:13:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E333B16A417 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F59513C458 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1545812wxd for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:13:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=oCXQILsnq04CjhxFljI+KZk58Y1jsiKUtqB/V/6K+og=; b=VxUqp/xqA21eTh8YrIOV9H0pWHZsV+5aecKoOjyRG2dLUaFL+RY68kQBVzmXiKY4LWjyw+Rqa/sIJ3c474u5lF4eqMC6jqZfGs1Zg5GoPrpooU2CitwEegGu9bB+Sz+XwmXY1vslp4i0VgXaSAnKfBKLe2Nc+2a8UmwtgCLYfsY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=VG5HazdQ3CGDmwNNJwXXqol8xpQ6y6YnqeSKr6qwLaJuxTSd5G1qDk5nzfzyJJeTUUZDDRkNyWVsxLHzZiSJT7dS+wYRp5oSs0Ojyw/W88kaUlznQAwmbCfIYedqjqpSWL4cDP07sZcZNPgvp0kcfM8i/UV3rxYRQbtMErI2Kig= Received: by 10.90.113.18 with SMTP id l18mr1127861agc.1190834001368; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.14? ( [74.95.66.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 33sm1126560wra.2007.09.26.12.13.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:13:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46FAA478.5080300@earthlink.net> References: <46FAA478.5080300@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <19C578BD-7B8B-438E-83F6-2A35F32EAEE0@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Crist Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:13:17 -0500 To: Walter X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubles with ftp access via browser X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:13:23 -0000 On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:27 PMSep 26, 2007, Walter wrote: > Hi, > > I've placed some files on a FBSD 6.2 server using the > standard ftpd to access them. The content in question > is a video clip, but could be anything that I wanted to > share with people unknown. > > I can access the file list with a browser on my internal > network - I do this to check that my links are good. > > But I (or anyone else) can't access these files externally > with a browser, but I can access them with ftp itself. Even > if I force a 'ftp' (for anon access) login via the browser > URL, it stalls. I thought this had worked at one time... > (Trembles with uneasy expectation) Here's the URL: > ftp://72.40.22.156/incoming/ > for anyone who wants to look at it. > > On a side note, I see lots of rejected log-in attempts in > the logs from sites trying to do ftp access with "Administrator". > Is there an easy way to allow that? > > TIA. It appears to me that you've got some firewall issues, perhaps. Passive FTP connections are failing. You'll need to setup a port range for ftpd to utilize for passive FTP, and allow those connections through your firewall. HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks