Hey everyone, After having an FTP server with Windows XP, I decided it's neither fast enough nor secure enough, so I installed linux. First off, im a complete linux newbie. I'm running SuSe Linux 8.1 right now, and I can't seem to figure out how to configure my FTP server. My server IS up and running at ftp://24.226.94.14 but I can't find the config files for the FTP. I've been looking around at some help files and documentation. So far, I beileve that config file is somewhere in the /ect directory? Also, a couple more questions. Assuming you can help me find the config file, how do I set up different user accounts and administer the /srv/ftp directory access? And finally, how can I setup my server to have a byte ratio? IE, the user uploads a 100MB demo and then he can download a 200MB demo. Is there a way to so this easily? I would appreciate any light on this subject. Thanks.

The answer to your questions depend greatly on which ftp server you are using. If you are using wu-ftp, probably the config files would be /etc/ftpaccess , /etc/ftpusers and a couple of others. You might however be running any of 100 different servers. Try to figure that out and we can be of more help.

How do I figure that out?

Well, I do see an ftpusers file in /ect. ftpaccess is not in there.

hello? Anyone???

open a ftp connection to your machine. if it answers, there should be an identification line probably saying something about washington university. consult the man pages man ftpd If you are running wu-ftp, thier web site has good configuration and webmin provides a nice gui administrative tool.

Thanks for replying. well I did check it out in the konsole. It says it's vsFTPd 1.1.0: beat me, break me