How do I make my Knoppix PC into an ftp server?

**Hermanh** · 01-25-2003, 05:46 PM

I've tried this again. This time I configured the knoppix-box started in text-mode (cheatcode: knoppix 2 expert) and logged in as user knoppix.
Of course I did give knoppix a password by typing:

Code:

passwd knoppix

, etc., etc., etc.

The result on the Win98-box are the same as earlier.

On my knoppix-box console the following apeared:

Code:

ftp(pam-unix)[947]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=192.168.0.51 user=knoppix
ftp(pam-unix)[954]: auth could not identify password for [ftp]

I am sure I used the right password and username.
I also tried on the Win98-box in IE 6.0 to use the following adress:

Code:

ftp://knoppix:pass@192.168.0.10

IE explorer did exactly the same as when I typed

Code:

ftp://192.168.0.10

So what could there be wrong?
I think there might be 2 causes for this:

1. I do something wrong in the host-file.
Maybe the information I put in the host-file about the knoppix-machine is wrong.
I did gave some information about the client, but I think that should not be needed.
If it's needed I still have a problem when I want to connect over the internet.
I do not always know in front on which machine I'm working.
Or should I just put in the information of the firewall/router which will be the first hop for the knoppix-box?

2. There is something wrong with the user.
I'm still getting error-messages when adding a user with adduser

I hope someone can answer me what I have to do to get things working.

Thanks.

**Dave_Bechtel** · 01-25-2003, 10:14 PM

--I updated the instructions again, and have used them myself several times now in the past couple of days. Suggestion:
1. Do *everything* exactly as written, in Knoppix, from text-mode root console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) - real sysadmins don't use GUI for configuration... :P

2. Boot Knoppix also on the *client* machine, and manually ifconfig eth0 to
"ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.0.0.0 up"

--Then see if it works using ncftp as described. Once you have it working, you can reboot the client box to Win and try it from there. (Of course you will have to reconfig the server for 192.168... and the new netmask, but Linux makes it easy.) If it still doesn't work on the Win side, try the DOS ftp client.

Originally Posted by Hermanh

I've tried this again.
The result on the Win98-box are the same as earlier.

On my knoppix-box console the following apeared:

Code:

ftp(pam-unix)[947]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=192.168.0.51 user=knoppix
ftp(pam-unix)[954]: auth could not identify password for [ftp]

I am sure I used the right password and username.
I also tried on the Win98-box in IE 6.0 to use the following adress:

Code:

ftp://knoppix:pass@192.168.0.10

IE explorer did exactly the same as when I typed

Code:

ftp://192.168.0.10

So what could there be wrong?
I think there might be 2 causes for this:

1. I do something wrong in the host-file.
Maybe the information I put in the host-file about the knoppix-machine is wrong.
I did gave some information about the client, but I think that should not be needed.
If it's needed I still have a problem when I want to connect over the internet.
I do not always know in front on which machine I'm working.
Or should I just put in the information of the firewall/router which will be the first hop for the knoppix-box?

2. There is something wrong with the user.
I'm still getting error-messages when adding a user with adduser

I hope someone can answer me what I have to do to get things working.

Thanks.

01-26-2003, 03:35 AM

The FTP-server is working.
I'm in! (from

The problem was the file ftpusers. This was also a symlink. As soon as I removed that link and copied the file from /KNOPPIX/etc to /etc the problem was solved.

I did also do some changing on the file hosts, but that did not solve the problem.

I came to the right answer by an error-message on the console after 5 retries.

Dave_Bechtel thanks for your time and everything. I know how desperate one can get if not exactly is done what you asked. Or how difficult it is to get your hands on the right spot when things go wrong. I do a lot of support for Windows on a dutch forum. So I know exactly how it feels. Again, thanks a lot.

**Hermanh** · 01-26-2003, 01:14 PM

I've tried it again with my old file hosts. And it does work also. So I did read the man-pages on hosts right. If you use a non dotted host-name you are supposed to be in the same network.

I think I just should let you know.

Again thanks.

**Dave_Bechtel** · 01-27-2003, 09:27 AM

--Glad it finally worked.

I kinda suspected the ftpusers file, but in the latest ISO rev it's not a problem. Always make sure you have the latest DL.

Originally Posted by Anonymous

The FTP-server is working.
I'm in! (from

The problem was the file ftpusers. This was also a symlink. As soon as I removed that link and copied the file from /KNOPPIX/etc to /etc the problem was solved.

I did also do some changing on the file hosts, but that did not solve the problem.

I came to the right answer by an error-message on the console after 5 retries.

Dave_Bechtel thanks for your time and everything. I know how desperate one can get if not exactly is done what you asked. Or how difficult it is to get your hands on the right spot when things go wrong. I do a lot of support for Windows on a dutch forum. So I know exactly how it feels. Again, thanks a lot.

01-27-2003, 05:07 PM

Just for a little bit more security:
I changed the file hosts.allow
It looks now like this:

Code:

inetd : ALL@ALL ALLOW
ALL : 127.0.0.1 LOCAL : ALLOW
ALL : ALL@ALL : DENY

**Hermanh** · 01-28-2003, 12:31 AM

Also for security reasons I did change several settings in inetd.conf.
From the external services is now only FTP running.

**roberto** · 03-03-2003, 07:55 AM

ok ... that was cool... if it is ok with everyone i think i will clean this post up a little and make it one of the how-to's on the knoppix doc forum. let me know if youy have any special requests, or objections.

http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=70773

toast

again dave is da' man :-p

**kevinkaseykizer** · 03-11-2003, 08:08 PM

hey everyone, i have gotten my ftp up and running just fine thanks to all of you.....but one question....i have my hard drive mounted but how do i get to it from the ftp?

all i can see the ramdrive

thanks

**A. Jorge Garcia** · 10-29-2003, 02:43 AM

Does any of the above apply if I just want to ftp across a LAN (intranet - in my lab at school). I tried everything in FAQFTP and got no where....

I rm'd hosts.deny and hosts.allow and restarted inetd on the "ftp server" but when I ftp from a client I get a time out after logging-in and just trying to ls! BTW, the client is a KNOPPIX liveCD and the server is knoppix-intalled as debian.

Please help!

TIA,