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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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Setting up vsftpd FTP server, cant get it to connect

Using vsftpd, all I want to do is share a directory I have with some friends and I am stuck. My ufw has the correct ports allowed, same as my router. I can SSH in so that tells me those are correct. ...
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How do I set up an FTP user with access to web root using vsftpd?

How do I set up an FTP user with access to web root using vsftpd? I am currently setting up a website and I am trying to learn more about web servers on the way. I used shared hosting providers ...
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How to get a recursive ftp directory listing without write permissions?

I know I can run ls * on the ftp server and get everything, but there's too much for my terminal (hundreds of pages so far). using ls * > myfile isn't an option because I don't have permission to ...
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Cannot retrieve directory listing from vsftpd after enabling TLS

I set up vsftpd on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. I added a user, and gave him FTP access via a userlist and chrooted him to his home directory. It worked fine. To make the file transfer more secure I wanted ...
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Cannot edit files with SFTP

I have a user with sudo access (I use Password to login, not SSH key), everything works fine on SSH (I can edit files with sudo) But on FTP, when editing files it gives me Permission Denied error... ...
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How to mount FTP resources with fstab when connection is available?

I'd like to automount an FTP folder using curlftpfs putting in fstab a row like: curlftpfs#user:pwd@myhost:port/folder/ /mnt/mymountfolder fuse allow_other,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,_netdev 0 0 ...
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vsftp specify root directory for anonymous login

I have installed the latest version of vsftpd on my system. I did enable anonymous login in /etc/vsftpd.conf: anonymous_enable=YES And I mapped the root directory to a folder of my choice, in this ...
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I can get into a web directory by using web browser ,but file manager fails

I'm using ubuntu 18.04 and firefox web browser I need to get into the following web directory (for example) http://dl3.fardasub.xyz/ I could get into the server and access its file system without ...
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How do I set up FTP on localhost?

On my old machine (back on Lucid!) I used XAMPP for local dev work. XAMPP installed everything for you, including setting up FTP to your localhost (/var/www) directory, since permissions don't allow ...
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How to give a specific user access only to a specific folder and its contents?

I used adduser <name> and created a new user, andrew. Now I want to give him read/write access only to /var/www/sitename.com and its contents. How am I supposed to do this? I tried sudo ...
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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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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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Memory consumption rampant when using FTP file transfer

I'm loading files in a newly installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server using FTP, but every single time I copy a file a new process is created on the server side and the old process not being closed, taking ...
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Can my Ubuntu server have both FTP and SFTP installed

I want to create an FTP user in an Ubuntu server and I also want the same user to access SFTP server in same machine. can I install both FTP and SFTP servers in same box. If yes how. Please let me ...
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Can't properly setup vsftpd using MariaDB

Goal My goal is to have an FTP server (vsftpd) installed to which I can add users / passwords to my MariaDB for verification. I have been using this guide: https://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-hosting-...
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User access to FTP and at same time set www-data as owner/group

In order for wordpress to read/write the owner of the files/folders need to be www-data. Now the problem is that if the owner is www-data of group filetransfer (www-data:filetransfer) then the FTP ...
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Looking for a Web Development IDE with built-in FTP functionality

Coming from using Espresso (not the drink, haha) on a Mac, I'm looking for a Web Development IDE that provides a built in ftp upload/download ability. The reason being, every seperate ftp client (...
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How can I install ftp server in kubuntu?

how install ftp server in kubuntu? please step by step, I installed by the comand sudo apt-get install vsftpd , but I cant connecting using filezilla
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Filezilla asks for key (which doesn't exist), only in my laptop

When I try to connect to a FTP server with Filezilla, it asks for a password fo unlock a private key, which I never configured. The site is not configured to use keys. If I enter my key password it ...
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How to give same permissions to FTP user & Home user?

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.6 I have created one FTP server using vsftpd. I initially followed instructions from the following link. How To Set Up vsftpd for a User's Directory on Ubuntu 16.04 But above ...
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FTP Problems on v18.04 with vsftpd and Google Cloud Platform

I'm having some unexplainable issues trying to setup FTP on vsftpd with my Google Cloud Platform compute engine. I've been messing with a bunch of different settings to get this going, but one issue ...
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How to make use of a new SCSI drive in a VPS hosting FTP server?

I just had configured a Virtual Server (Ubuntu Server 16.04, GNU/Linux 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64) for FTP use. For these means I got initially assigned a SCSI drive, mounted as sda with to partitions ...
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Set up SFTP/FTP for development purposes

I have 18.04 Ubuntu Server running (via VM) and using it for development (Mongo, Express, Node) purposes I would like to introduce some code others have written. Some of it I can install via npm, ...
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How do I connect to vsftpd server via ssh connection

First, a bit of background: I've set up an OpenSSH server on my local media center (htpc, running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) and I then connect to that externally, via SSH, by using the VX Connectbot app on ...
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FTP client unable to LIST server contents due to local firewall

TL;DR - Local Firewall On: FTP connects successfully, LIST / LS / DIR return Error 425 Could not open data connection to port [large port number]: Connection timed out. Local Firewall Off: FTP ...
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Can't mount samba drive

I have a shared HDD connected to my Asus router. I can't access the ftp in nautilus by ftp://192.168.1.1/My_DRIVE The problem come when I want to mount the drive at boot. This goes to /etc/fstab //...
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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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Cannot connect to FTP via Nautilus but FileZilla can

I tried to connect to FTP via Nautilus on Ubuntu 14.04. When I tried the address for example, ftp://whs.servername.com, nothing happen, but I can connect it via FileZilla. If I tried with SFTP, it ...
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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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Filezilla: Error loading queue

I'm on Ubuntu 18.10 and Filezilla has been giving me a lot of trouble. After installing it through the app manager (out of date version), shell (out of date version), and the website's .tar.bz2 file; ...
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ftp 18.10 no route to host exception

Trying to connect to a server ftp.sel2in.com but get ftp ftp> open ftp.sel2in.com ftp: connect: No route to host ftp> Same with filezilla client I'm able to ping and ssh into the server. After ...
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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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Can I make a user's home directory be /var/www/html for vsftp? [duplicate]

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 web server. It only hosts one site using Nginx. I want to keep things very simple, and store the index.html file and the whole website in /var/www/html. I need to be able to ...
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Cannot access /var/www through FTP

I'm trying to access /var/www through Filezilla but my user can only access files inside of it's home directory. I've added my user to the www-data group, however it still doesn't allow me the ...
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Selecting os after wake on lan using sub-os

Recently I had an idea: what if I install a mini os that grub starts by default, that listen for a packet sent by my phone and then it modify the grub configuration files changing the default os to ...
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kdiff3 how to compare files over remote server ftp?

I followed the instructions from here http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/doc/misc.html But i can't make it working. For some reason the kdiff always throw an error it's not a file. How can i compare ...
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Restrict user's ftp acces to specific folder with vsftpd

I trying to restrict all users that is created to /var/www, but each user must be able to be restricted to any subdirectory. For example: user test1 restricted to /var/www/ user test2 restricted to /...
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Unable to connect to my vsftp server via "INTERNET"

I set up a simple vsftp server on Ubuntu Desktop 18.04. On LAN, it works fine. I wanna connect to my server outside my LAN. How can I? - I tried using ftp://publicip Doesn't work. My aim is to serve ...
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Be notified (e.g. mail) of unsuccessful FTP login attempts to my server

I have a server I log in to with FTP. I'd like to know of a way to be notified of fraudulent login attempts.
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Connection to FTP Always Refused

I have a computer running Ubuntu Server 16.04. I have set up webmin which works great. Webmin is using its own port and I can connect to that no problem both within my local network and remote ...
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FTP connection fails while SFTP works

EDIT: figured it out, I needed to comment out SSL stuffs to make it FTP. Problem: I'm running sFTP with SSL using vsftpd. AsI can't access sFTP on browser(without extension), now I want to get FTP ...
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Save and restore nautilus server connection bookmarks

Usually I open Nautilus \ File \ Connect to server. Enter some authentication data (usually FTP). Login, go to some folder (usually public_html) and save bookmark to remote server (so later folder can ...
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How do I access Zpanel (Control Panel) files?

I've bought a VPS and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it. To control my domains, I've installed Zpanel X (10.1.0) (ControlPanel) and, while this went after 4 tries, perfectly, I cannot access the Zpanel ...
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No write access for vsFTPd server despite 777 permissions on files

I followed this tutorial in order to set up a vsFTPd server on my Raspberry Pi. Currently I am able to read files without any problem but trying to write gives me this error from Firezilla 550 ...
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Network folder login window does not save data

The functionalities of this window does NOT save the credentials provided when the "Remember Forever" option is checked.
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Accessing files in local ftp server files through terminal?

After connecting to a local ftp server, how can I access the files through the terminal?
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User/Group Folder permissions

This is confusing me a lot, I followed suggestions from a lot of answers here and for some reason it is still not working at all. Please bear with me as I explain what is happening. I have a folder ...
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Nautilus FTP symbolic links

When connecting to an FTP server through Nautilus, symbolic links show as documents. When I attempt to open it, it thinks that the symbolic link is trying to point somewhere on my local machine, and ...
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Network and FTP issues

I am new to Ubuntu. I've done installs on CentOS and Redhat, but on Ubuntu I am having network and ftp issues. I ask them together as these issues might be related. This is also my first experience ...
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Strange files on FTP account

We have a user who needs to use FTP for a specific application. For the last wee or so, really starnge files have been appearing in their account: -rw------- 1 root root 59 Nov 21 14:...

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