Answers are out of order...as they will make more sense that way... On 4/6/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what's this all got to do with ftp?
Nothing at all. But you were not running an ftp _server_ on the machine you were trying to connect to. I think it has already been answered that the 'ftp' command is a client, and needs a server to connect to. So on the other machine, you need a server. There are several in portage: net-ftp/ftpd, net-ftp/proftpd are probaby the most popular, and thus if you have problems or questions the most likely that people will be able to help you with. If the default configuration of the ftp server doesn't work for your needs however, you will need to reconfigure it. This is no more difficult than other servers, but will require reading some documentation, howto's, etc. However ssh is quite a bit easier, because the default configuration is quite usable for most tasks. You still need a server on the other machine (the commands 'ssh' and 'scp' are clients), but that just means merging openssh there as well, and running '/etc/init.d/sshd start'. > But what's this bit at the end of the console o/p: > > <snip> > >>> /usr/share/openssh/Ssh.bin > * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ > and then > * restart sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd restart'. This will be necessary on the server machine to restart the ssh server in the case where it already exists. > * As of version 3.4 the default is to enable the > UsePrivelegeSeparation You can ignore the rest of this output if you use the default configuration files. Actually, since you don't care about security here at all, you can ignore it completely. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
