Questions tagged [ftp]
File transfer protocol is a method of transferring data over a network. On Ubuntu, FTP may be used in both GUI (though FTP clients) and CLI (through, e.g., the sftp command) modes.
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vsftpd: 530 Login incorrect
I can't get vsfptd working on Ubuntu 12.04.
my vsftpd.conf file looks like this, and I try to connect with a local user:
listen=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
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Nicer FTP client than FileZilla?
FileZilla is really kind of "meh," when it comes to user interface. I'm wondering if there's something simpler/cleaner/slicker out there?
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How do I temporarily run an FTP server?
In the world of Ubuntu, it seems you either always run an FTP server or you never do. Perhaps I'm the first network analyst who's needed to flash a Cisco, Checkpoint or Nokia image using Ubuntu... I ...
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Basic Ubuntu FTP Server
I would like to setup a basic FTP server on my Ubuntu Server install. I have been playing with VSFTPD, but am having issues getting the server to allow me to create directories and copy files. I ...
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Permission denied in FTP even though I'm the owner
Okay, so I've tried my best at finding the answer to this by searching and looking through possible duplicates, but I just can't so forgive me if it's out there somewhere anyways.
My issue is as ...
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Connect to FTP/SFTP in Dolphin or transfer Nautilus Bookmarks
I am really liking the power of Dolphin and all the KDE tools that go along with using it. What can I do to connect over FTP/SFTP with Dolphin?
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How to Setup FTP to use in locally hosted wordpress
I have installed wordpress on my ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition and I am trying to install plugin from the browser (I know I can drop it to the wp-content/plugin but I want to do it via the web browser ...
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How to setup virtual users for vsftpd with access to a specific sub directory?
I need to be able to add a virtual users to vsftpd that only have access to a sub folder. The reason why I want to use virtual users is I only want to have 1 real user on the server.
The FTP ...
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vsftpd log file location?
Can someone tell me where is located the log file for vsftpd? I'm trying to learn how to install and configure a ftp server and I can't seem to find the log file. Can anybody tell me how to configure ...
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How do I execute FTP commands on one line?
This is what I'm doing when I log into a FTP:
ftp user:password@server
ftp: user:password@server: Unknown host
ftp> echo HELLO WORLD!
ftp> quit
I'd like to do a one-line FTP command...
ftp ...
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How to automatically sync the contents of a local folder with the contents of a ftp folder?
After searching everywhere I have not managed to find a specific answer for my question.
On Windows there is an application called FTPbox that will automatically sync a local folder with an ftp one ...
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How to change vsftpd's default directory to / instead of the user's home directory?
I currently have vsftpd installed in such a way, that when a user, say for instance my account frederik authenticates, I will be directed to my home directory /home/frederik/.
This is a problem for ...
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Recommended console ftp clients
Are there any full featured console (command line) ftp clients?
I'm moving parts of a website from one host to another. One server has ssh shell access (and thus scp, sftp, etc.), the other only ftp....
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How can I upgrade filezilla to the current version? [duplicate]
Filezilla was acting weird with version 3.21, which is pretty old; the current one is 3.30. So, I decided to update it but it looks like this is not possible. After spending hours trying it, I ...
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How to find `.desktop` file location for a particular application
EDIT: This is not a duplicate as this question is the reverse of what the other question is asking. Here we know what is the application and we want to find its .desktop file that can be located in ...
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FTP Permissions read but not write
I made a personal FTP server on an old laptop but when I connect I can only read/download no upload. How do I change this? Thanks for the help in advance I am use vsftpd
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how to change vsftpd default port?
so here's the deal. I have vsftpd installed and am looking to change the default port to something other than 21. I've checked /etc/vsftpd.conf and can't find a setting to change the default port. I'm ...
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How can I allow or disallow access to SSH on a SFTP server?
I started from the following article to set up SFTP on Ubuntu Server: http://blog.srmklive.com/2013/04/24/how-to-setup-sftp-server-ftp-over-ssh-in-ubuntu/. If I follow these instructions, I can ...
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How do I install a FTP Server?
How to configure FTP server in my Ubuntu 12.04 or 13.04.What to install and how to configure.
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How to download a whole FTP site using command line?
I need to download an FTP site (a web site source code actually) containing a very high quantity of relatively small files (downloading it with FileZilla took more than a day, but I believe it could ...
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Filezilla or WinSCP alternative for Ubuntu
On Windows I'm using FileZilla to upload/download files on my WordPress website, via sftp, while using ssh key.
Now Linux is my primary operating system. For the last month FileZilla client was ...
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How to create a user for ftp server?
I'm using vsftpd. I need an ftp server for my web server, I can login under my account of course, but I can't do the main thing it's meant for and add/edit/remove files in my var/www directory.
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Download remote FTP directory
How can I download a specified directory and all it's files from an FTP server (requiring username+password)?
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FTP/SFTP not allowing any writing
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and vsftpd. In the past my account (not root) has had full access, more or less, to either FTP or SFTP to anything on my server and edit any file that my user account could edit....
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vsftpd - GnuTLS error -15: An unexpected TLS packet was received
How can I fix this error when I try connecting to the ftp server on filezila:
GnuTLS error -15: An unexpected TLS packet was received.
And this error on sublime ftpsync plugin:
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: ...
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Configuring Permissions for FTP and Apache
I have a web server (Apache2) that i access with FileZilla.
On my web server i have a dir /home/admin/www that i binded to /var/www. So i can access it with FTP. This works perfect!
But everytime ...
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HTTP(S) based file server
I've got a server running Ubuntu 10.04. I've already gotten openssh for ssh and sftp on it.
I've been looking for a web-based (http, or preferably https) file server, perhaps a web-front-end to an (...
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FTP Server on Ubuntu
I'm looking for an FTP server application for my headless server, which is a public virtual machine with a public ip address. . I've narrowed it down to 3, at least from what I've read are the most ...
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sudo unable to resolve host localhost.localdomain
Hello guys
When I run
sudo nano /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
I get this error :
sudo unable to resolve host localhost.localdomain
I'm trying to set DefaultRoot to /var/wwwas per the following ...
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Give ftp users access to directories outside their root using symlinks
I tried to give proftpd virtual users access to directories outside their home paths using symlinks I created as root through the console.
/var/ftp/users/test is the home of the user named test.
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How to use Nautilus as FTP: Connect to Server not working
I am trying to connect to my FTP server from nautilus. I am simply trying to update some .html files. I enter my domain here, but nothing happens and I cannot click "connect". Any suggestions?
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how to sync ftp folder with local folder?
I have a local folder, and I would like to sync it a folder on a web server via FTP . what is the best way to accomplish this? I would prefer to be able to do this via terminal, so that I can just ...
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FTP connection problems in Nautilus - seems to time out after a while
I have no trouble connecting to my FTP server by going to Places > Connect to server...
I can then browse the FTP site to my heart's content with Nautilus for a few minutes.
After a few minutes of ...
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FTPS client, preferably integrated in Nautilus?
I like Nautilus for FTP/WebDAV, but how to use it with an FTPS server?
When I enter ftps:// Nautilus says Don't recognize this file server type.
Is there any plugin?
Or something as quick and ...
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What is the mount point for an FTP server opened in nautilus?
My question is what is the mount point in nautilus opening ftp server (example: ctrl + L ftp://ftpserver.com) like DVD/CD was in /media/Optical, or Pendrive was on /media/Mypendrive for example.
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How to re-enable FTP on secondary Ubuntu/Debian server to pull updates from Main Linux Server with Mirrored depository?
updated both my Linux servers to Ubuntu 19.10 and the latest version of Debian which both are pointing to my main Linux Server running a Mirrored depository and allows communications to it via FTP, ...
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Why vsftpd doesnt work when pam_service_name=vsftpd?
I did a vsftpd setup on my home server. I got some authentication error so I searched through this forum and got a solution.
This solution worked for me
As in the solution. the default setting
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How to show only specific directory to FTP user
In my ubuntu 14.04 I installed the (FTPD) ftp server. I would like to create one user for that and set nologin to that user. When logging on using an FTP client, I want that particular user to be able ...
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How to list all FTP-users?
I need to get all FTP-users, but I dont understand how to get (list) all FTP (vsftpd or proftpd) users, is there some solutions about this?
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How to stop and remove ftp service?
I want to stop ftp and remove the service on Ubuntu 14.04
I tried sudo apt-get remove ftp and checked using command ps aux | grep ftp but the service was still running.
Please suggest some way to ...
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Need ProFTPd to follow symbolic link
I have 2 folder:
/var/www/project1/
/var/www/repository/module/
and I have this symbolic link:
/var/www/project1/module/News => /var/www/repository/module/News
I know the target is outside the ...
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Remote administration of a server?
I'm going to install a ubuntu server to provide email, ftp and maybe webserver services too.
I dont want to install a gui for the server, but I'd like to administrate it remotely.
I was thinking in ...
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How to restrict ssh and ftp to certain ip address?
What is the easiest way to make it so that the only way anyone could access the ssh or ftp for my ubuntu machine is to be on a certain ip address?
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How to enable a user to login through FTP?
I have installed vsftp on Ubuntu 10.10. I want to give the user FTP login privilage .
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How to mount a network drive?
I'm trying to set-up a home file server. I'm thinking about just setting it up as an FTP server, no particular reason other than I'm familiar with FTP and samba tends to be very frustrating.
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Can I connect to Ubuntu One via FTP?
Is there any way i can connect to my account via FTP (gFTP)? wget would help?
I tried connecting via HTTPS and FTP (one.ubuntu.com) with my e-mail and password (launchpad's) and didn't work.
I just ...
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Default file permissions for php user www-data
I have a php installed on my ubuntu machine. The web root is /var/www
I set the permissions for this folder like so:
sudo chown -R ftpuser:www-data /var/www
ftpuser is the user I set up so I can ...
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Filezilla crashes ubuntu 16.04 lts- Please suggest alternate
Suddenly filezilla has started behaving abnormally..
As and when i try to connect to some ftp from the site manager , filezilla crashes and automatically closes..
If I try to connect via quick ...
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How to configure FTP server?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 as ftp server, when I upload file using Filezilla client, I always got "550 Permission denied".
How to configure my server?
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vsftpd-cannot read config file even when file exists
I'm on Ubuntu 15.04 and I just installed vsftpd.
When I run the command service vsftpd status, I get the following output:
vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/...
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