425 failed to establish connection

[HalfMadDad]

Hi Everyone

I want to use a text editor in linux and I want to use a linux browser to download content rather then elinks.

I have vsftp set up and functioning on a linux box and I want to send and get files from it.

With minix's ftp command I am getting the error listed in the subject line. I am communicating with the ftp daemon as I receive the greeting message and I get a 230 login successful message.

Could someone help me figure out where I am going wrong ?

[Antoine LECA]

HalfMadDad wrote:
> I want to use a text editor in linux and I want to use a linux browser
> to download content rather then elinks.

Somewhere in your sentence you substituted linux for MINIX, but I cannot
find where exactly.

> I have vsftp set up and functioning on a linux box and I want to send
> and get files from it.

Okay, seems we are back on track: there is a FTP server out there (from
the MINIX point of view), and you want to use it; fine; just a pity we
need to guess the version of MINIX you are using...

> With minix's ftp command I am getting the error listed in the subject
> line. I am communicating with the ftp daemon as I receive the greeting
> message and I get a 230 login successful message.

As you explained above, your connection is working well, you are able to
log into the server etc. Then you issue unknown command, and the server
is replying with a transitory (4) error, about connection.

Since we are all about guessing, I'll guess you issued some command
which ask to transfer files, which in the non-passive FTP protocol would
need to open a new TCP connection on port 22; and for some reason that
connection failed to establish (could be firewall, resource shortage,
and a long list of other reasons, on both ends.)

> Could someone help me figure out where I am going wrong ?

Sorry, I cannot figure it, there are just too many possibilities.


Antoine

[Patrick]

I am posting to the list quite a bit these days. I was trying to keep my
posts as short as possible but I guess that's isn't working. Let me try
again, forgive me if I add too much detail:

We can browse and download content using links on Minix but would prefer
to do this using Abrowser on Debian Stable or Firefox on KDE mint, the
other two computers I have on my desk.

I am using Minix version 3.2.1

My vsftpd daemon is running on Kde Mint and listening on port 20. I can
ftp to it from Debian and from a NetBSD live CD(G4U).

From Minix I type:

ftp 192.68.0.80

I am prompted for a user name and password.
After login I get a message welcome to the vsftp server

I type ls

then I get the error above.


Is Minix assuming port 22 and Linux port 20 perhaps ? If so I don't
understand why the login is successful.

I looked at the ftp man page under Minix and did not see a way to
specify the port.

Thanks

[Greg King]

On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 7:31:24 AM UTC-4, HalfMadDad wrote:

My vsftpd daemon is running on Kde Mint and listening on port 20. I can
ftp to it from Debian and from a NetBSD live CD(G4U).
From Minix I type:
   ftp 192.68.0.80

I am prompted for a user name and password.

After login, I get a message, welcome to the vsftp server.
I type "ls"; then, I get the error above [in the subject line].

Is Minix assuming port 22 and Linux port 20, perhaps? If so, I don't

understand why the login is successful.

I looked at the ftp man page under Minix; and, did not see a way to
specify the port.

Read  http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol

It explains the ports -- and the difference between passive and "non-passive".

[Patrick]

I'm in !

Thanks very much Greg

For those who stumble on this thread later, the key is to use the passive command once logged in, it's listed in the man page

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