Can you ftp from the linux box to itself with those accounts you wrote failed from other servers?

If you can't, then the problem is only on your linux server. Double check the configurations of wu-ftpd and check out the faq on their web site for more info. Post back with specific questions.

Yup, I can ftp out of linux onto the other servers while logged in as all those that I tried. So problem definitely seems on the linux boxes and its on both of them. Good news is I'm learning a lot about ftp and the network config files, bad news is i have little organization so hope i don't remember it all wrong Someone had suggested a book on tcp/ip and I've got it (EXPENSIVE) just not had time to read it. Trying to learn to be a good sysadmin on the fly, doing well so far, ask me again in 6 mos.

Thanks

kymberm,

I was asking if you could ftp to the linux system from it - not from the linux system to another. Please test and post results.

Example:

(Linux server #1 - IP 10.140.1.1)

$ telnet 10.140.1.1

login: someaccount
passwd: ******
Last login: (some text)
$
$ ftp 10.140.1.1
(Some welcome text)
Name (someaccount): someaccount
Password: *****

Your ftpd process (and inetd) should be logging to syslog. Check your logs and please post the ftp related entries. Neo

If you do a ps -ef |grep xinetd do you get anything back? If you are running xinetd instead inetd, edit the wu-ftpd file in /etc/xinetd.d and and change "yes" to "no" for the "disable" value. Then kill -SIGUSR2 the PID for xinetd.

I did a ps -ef | grep xinetd and got nada in reply, so xinetd is not running. I checked /etc/xinetd.d/ and the only thing in there is linuxconf-web and that is disabled for service linuxconf. I can ftp out of my linux box anywhere, however, when i'm on the unix or windows box and i try telnet to my linux box, that works, but if i try ftp to same address as asked above, nada, doesn't work. The only failure message i get when ftp'ing is that login incorrect. But telnet does work to that same address, just ftp doesn't, and i used the same logon for both.
I did a search for syslog and found 3, in
/var/lock/subsys/syslog
/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog
and the only one that was current (the other 2 were from 1999) was the var/lock one and it had a 0 size.

So something's not right here, I just need some help figuring it out.

Thanks again to all for the help, it's invaluable.

Check your syslog log files for inetd and ftpd entries.

Do a netstat -t and post the results (so we can see what ports are listening).