File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer data across one host to another via a TCP-based network

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vsftpd can't access from linux

I have ubuntu 12.04 lts server with vsftpd-ext installed (for allow-writable-chroot). it has been working solid, even with ftps support(I have my manually signed certificate for this). until now I ...
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FTP server for LAN-only use— Write-permission issue in /var/www/

I'm trying to setup an FTP server so that any machine on the network can upload files to my /var/www/ on my Ubuntu 13.04 LAMP server -- with or without authentication. I've spent most of the day ...
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vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot

I want to setup a anonymous only ftp server (able to upload files). Here is my config file: listen=YES anonymous_enable=YES anon_root=/var/www/ftp local_enable=YES write_enable=YESr. ...
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Set FTP User default directory to /var/www Ubuntu Server

Trying to figure out the best way to set the default directory for the few FTP users we have (3 in-house developers who need access simply to the WWW directory). Want to just set it so that if any of ...
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SetFTP access to 2nd nic

I have a situation where we have our main LAN/Domain that all users connect to and provides access to the WEB. We have a couple of individuals who on occasion will begin an extended FTP download, ...
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Can FTP bandwidth usage result in dropped SSH connection?

It seems highly implausible, even ridiculous, to me. I login by SSH to the CentOS server. I FTP to another server and begin a large file transfer out (uploading to other server). After some time ...
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Error while trying to start vsftpd server

I installed ftp server vsftpd in my fedora 16 machine. It worked fine until this morning. Suddenly, this morning, when i entered command to restart vsftpd it shows following error [root@localhost ...
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FTP Backup Site minus one directory

I am backing up a site including a huge cache folder use SFTP (FileZilla).I do not really need to backup the wp-cache directory, but do not want to get rid off it either atm. Is there a way to use ...
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SFTP creates file but can't complete transfer

I'm trying to upload files to a VPS over SFTP. Unfortunately, I'm having a strange problem. While uploading a file over SFTP as root, the transfer appears to randomly stops somewhere in the first ...
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How to find timestamp of file on FTP server

I need to find the latest created file in a FTP folder. However the FTP server is not returning full timestamps for files with the LIST command (missing the year): drwxr-xr-x 2 owner group ...
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VPS WHM: Restrict FTP of individual accounts to specific IP Addresses

Is there a way to Restrict access to FTP of individual accounts to specific IP Addresses? For the last few weeks, I've been receiving 12+ emails a day informing me that an IP from China is trying ...
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How do I delete a remote file using NCFTP (Windows client)?

With ncftpput.exe how do I delete a remote file once logged in? I have tried using the -W option to send a Raw FTP command but cannot get it to work. Has anyone got a working example? Have tried ...
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Configure FTP Server with two different IP addresses on different subnets and separate NICs

I have an FTP server that's on a low bandwidth connection. We want to set it up with a second IP address on a much higher bandwidth connection. I set up the second interface with a static IP address ...
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FTP Server on Centos 5.8 - Transfer fails randomly

Hi have ProFTPD runningon a brand new CentOS 5.8 server with Plesk, and its behaviour is inconsistent at best. I tried to transfer a directory from my PC, and every time I get a transfer failed on a ...
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SFTP: Move (rename) many files from one folder to another (not one by one)

I need to move all the files from current_path to current_path/DestinationFolder. The version of SFTP I'm using is: SFTP protocol version 2 The available commands are: sftp> help Available ...
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Is it possible to workaround the maxlist setting in proftp?

I help admin a website which runs on a shared host. The host uses ProFTP and is using the maxlist directive to limit the number of items returned in a directory listing. One other thing to note is ...
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Is it possible to migrate OS X Server user passwords to Linux?

I have an FTP server running on OS X Server 10.6 and I would like to migrate it to CentOS. Is it possible to migrate user passwords from OS X Server to Linux?
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Cannot Connect to VSFTP outside of network

I am having a hair pulling issue with my VSFTPD. I am not sure where to turn and I have went through to make sure everything is working properly and when trying to connect to ftp using ftp localhost ...
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Could not connect to server ProFTPd Debian

I am using ProFTPd as my FTP program on my server, but am unable to login to it. I've enabled MySQL for it so that I can use a web-tool to make users/groups for it. The connection itself seems to be ...
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Strange FTP issues - some files are not downloaded

I have a machine, which cannot fetch some files from remote servers by FTP. Machine is powered by CentOS. I tested FTP on three files: 12.09.2012 21:21 166 007 ll091212.002 13.09.2012 ...
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proftpd on debian: super user and simple users with their folder

hi there sorry for my english im italian. Here is what i would like to do with proftpd i have a main user: webserver group: www-data must do anything in var/www/ and subfolders ( it actually works ) ...
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“Unknown command `;'. ” when mirroring a Windows Server FTP Site

I have a Windows server running Windows Server 2008 R2. I've set up an FTP site and a user account and I can connect to it and successfully download files using the Windows command-line FTP client ...
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FTP Server: Single user, multiple roots

I'm working for a company where we have lot of different projects. Now we have an FTP Server, where every user can login using their active directory credentials. Project owners of the company we do ...
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lenny/plesk, useradd no restriction for homedir, and not able to login with shell /bin/false

I'm running debian lenny - plesk. I want to create a new ftp user, so I run useradd -d /var/www/vhosts/somedomain.com/httpdocs/somedir johnny everything okay, johnny can now login, but he is able ...
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FTP Connection closed by server

When i some times try to connect to remote ftp , its successfully connected , but other times the error reported from server "Connection closed by server" , while this happen by one or more remote ...
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Cant Login using SSH or Filezilla FTP

I had been using linode successfully for the last 3 months. The server OS is a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. From a few hours, I am not able to login through SSH via putty. After I enter the username and ...
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How to stop file access during upload on windows server 2008 IIS7.5

I have an application that runs on a windows server 2008 box. It watches a folder for files, when a file appears (ftp upload) the application tries to move it to another folder as a test to see if it ...
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ProFTPd configuration mod_auth_file cross folders with different rights in groups

I have decided to use mod_auth_file, and made AuthGroupFile and AuthUserFile but each user points to own home directory /home/username as described in AuthUserFile. How to get server to work in ...
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Oliver FTP Directory Listing

Has anyone used Oliver Simple FTP before? http://oliver.sourceforge.net/ I've set everything up, managed to log in with my newly created ftp account. However, there is no directory listing. When I ...
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PureFTPd - is it possible to limit file access for virtual users?

I have a website for a little group of people, where each of them can login using their username and password. Since we'd like to share some files, I am looking for a FTP server, which would allow ...
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Set usergroup and persmissions ftp folder back to default

I tried to create a new ftp user via the commandline. But I did something wrong and now I can access the server via FTP but I can't see any files. It doesn't make any sense wich user I'm using. ls ...
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ftp issue ( from server to webhosting)

I have a web hosted on a sever where i have created an ftp user. now i m trying to access that ftp from a vps but when i give password it says me authentication faild. [root@vps ~]# ftp ...
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Setting up FTP for specific folders

I want users to be able to upload files via FTP to my site (IIS 7.5). Once the file is uploaded, then I want to process the file. Is there some guide that steps through how to setup FTP to point to a ...
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permit a user to access only selected directory on the server, via ftp

i have this folder/subdomain structure on my server: --- website.com --- sub.website.com --- sub2.website.com --- sub3.website.com if i login via sftp with my admin user i can see every ...
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GRSEC Not allowing Active FTP on Privileged ports

I've been testing an issue with FTP Active transfers recently and I've narrowed down a problem. On my GRSEC enabled kernel, FTP Active transfers fail to establish on Privileged ports. Using identical ...
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prevent access to files uploaded through ftp from a browser

Not sure if this is possible at all: I have an FTP server, which clients use to drop off documents. Each client has their own sub-account and can only access his own folders. Question: Is there a ...
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IIS FTP Upload, file rights

We needed a way to allow administrators to upload support files to user directories using FTP with IIS. We have folder redirection and roaming profiles in place and we have created an active directory ...
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Configure Pure-FTPd to limit access to FTP to some IP?

Is there any way to limit connection to FTP, to allow only connection from certain IP, or range of IPs if Pure-FTPd is installed on server. Something like .ftpaccess, ftp access configuration file? ...
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how to make curl uploads faster with firewall

We recently moved a new server and are facing the slow upload issues . We suspect this because of firewall . how do I make sure applications like ftp,curl become faster with firewall. Any inputs ...
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File uploads taking more time

We recently moved to a new server. We have observed that the file upload done from the ftp command is taking around 5sec for 5MB file. But same file uploaded through CURL command is taking about 140 ...
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FileZilla Server connection fails when switching to explicit SSL/TLS

I've configured FileZilla server successfully (without SSL/TLS) by port forwarding: -Modem (external ISP address): TCP 21, 990, 50000-50100 -> 10.1.10.10 -Router (external 10.1.10.10): TCP 21, 990, ...
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Transfer files between Shared Hosting servers using FTPES

I have two shared hosting servers and a VPS. One at ixwebhostings with their panel and other is a cPanel hosting. I would like to move some files between these two. ixwebhosting supports FTP and ...
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Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6) - Locating my FTP

We have a Windows 2003 Server running IIS6, which was setup long before my time. Now that I've had a request to set-up an isolated FTP user account for a client (so that they have access to their ...
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Shared FTP directory

I have created /var/www directory on my machine. There works proftpd server. I also created 2 user and each of them has /var/www set as home directory. Both of them are in ftp-users group. Files' ...
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Configuring FTP access for an IIS7 website

We are using the VStudio 2010 Publish command to keep our ASP.NET MVC 3 website synchronized. However we need FTP to facilitate the update of large setup binaries. Every tutorial I found on the ...
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Slow ftp speeds from special directories

Good day, I'm having a very strange Problem with FTP transfers. The ftp server is a Linux 2.6 32-bit box with vsftp installed. On this box, transmission-daemon (bittorrent) is also installed and the ...
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How to Create an FTP server via IIS with a public_html page inside it?

I am a total novice , no idea on how to proceed . the question I am asking maybe the most basic . but trust me when I say I am a total novice I simply want to create an FTP server via IIS and host ...
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Managing multiple FTP accounts

I have a Linux (opensuse 11) webserver with plesk (9.5) and I have the challange for managing multiple ftp accounts for data exchange with customers. What I would like to have is setup easy an ...
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Restrict listing a “root” directory in ProFTPD

I have an FTP server set up where, off the root, there is a file structure laid out by city. Underneath each city's folder are more folders organized by project. I would like to be able to restrict ...
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Uploading to multiple FTP sites at once (Or folder sync)

Im currently building a small CDN topology system, and im looking for the best way to sync the files within certain folder in all the servers. I need to be able to upload a file to a certain SINGLE ...