FTP Server (FreeBSD Ver. 8.0)

[jjjustjjjay]

Dear, Experts

I have a FreeBSD computer running as a FTP server, and i can login with a command prompt but when i try to login with Internet Explorer or Firefox it says, 530 User anonymous unknown :q









~J~

 

[mbr661]

Hello Justjay,

What FTP software are you using?

I use pure-ftp in FreeBSD 7.1 and in pure-ftpd.conf I have the following:

AnonymousOnly               no #not only anonymous users
NoAnonymous                 no #allow anonymous users

Find your config file and look for similar settings.

Cheers!

 

[DutchDaemon]

AFAIK, IE and FF will only perform anonymous FTP, unless you specify username and password as part of the URL. Something like userassword@some.ftp.site, IIRC.

 

[Alt]

jjjustjjjay freebsd's server by default not permitting anonymous logon

 

[DutchDaemon]

Oh right, the 'trying to log in' bit threw me.

 

[DutchDaemon]

If you're using ProFTPd, look for the following lines in /usr/local/etc/openftpd.conf:

# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.  If you do not
# want anonymous users, simply delete this entire <Anonymous> section.

For options of the stock FreeBSD ftpd, look in ftpd(8).

 

[aragon]

AFAIK, IE and FF will only perform anonymous FTP, unless you specify username and password as part of the URL. Something like userassword@some.ftp.site, IIRC.

I think the correct way is:

ftp://username@host/

And the browser should pop up a password prompt window.