October 2006
Beginner
658 pages
17h 17m
English
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Configuring an FTP Server
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a long-established Internet protocol for downloading files. In Fedora, you can use the Very Safe FTP program, vsftp, to serve data via FTP.
How Do I Do That?
To serve content via FTP, just install the vsftpd package and place the content that you wish to make publicly available in the /var/ftp directory.
Tip
If you are using a firewall, you will need to open the FTP ports in the firewall.
To view the contents of /var/ftp with a browser, go to ftp://<hostname>/. To access files in a home directory, use the URL ftp://<user>@<hostname>/ (the browser will ask for your password) or ftp://<user>:<password>@<hostname>/.
To access the contents of /var/ftp using a command-line FTP client program, log in as anonymous and use your email address as your password:
$ftpftp>openConnected to 172.16.97.100. 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.4) 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type Name (ftp.fedorabook.com:chris):ftp.fedorabook.comPassword:anonymous230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp>chris@fedorabook.comls227 Entering Passive Mode (172,16,97,100,237,192) 150 Here comes the directory listing. drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 16:41 fedora-core-5 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 16:41 fedora-core-6 drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 16:41 fedora-linux drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 16:42 images drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4096 Mar 09 ...
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