Subject: Re: MacIntosh Fetch problems with wuarchive ftpd

From: [email-masked] (Randy Zagar)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:08:41 -0400

> 
> I wonder if others have also noticed some peculiarities with Mac 
> "fetch", an ftp client, when connecting to a UNIX system running the 
> wu-ftpd.
> 
> It seems that if one ftp's into a named, chrooted account on Solaris, at 
> least, one cannot see what one has placed there. But transfers do seem to 
> work
> 
> PC and UNIX clients work fine. So permissions cannot be the problem
> 
> Any ideas?

I'm having similar sorts of problems with wu-ftpd v2.4 under Solaris 2.4
and Netscape on the Mac.  Using a URL of "ftp://chester.cms.udel.edu/"
I have no problems getting a listing of the directory from a UNIX or
PC client, but if I use Netscape(Mac) I get the following error:

	Netscape is unable to find the file "/".
	Check the file name and try again.

I set up a packet sniffer and was able to find out that Netscape(mac)
attempts a PASV command which fails and then things go downhill from there.

I find it interesting that the same Mac Netscape client has problems
with wu-ftpd v2.4 under Solaris 2.4, but does *not* have problems
with it under IRIX-5.2.

More grist for the mill,

 -Randy

p.s.  Not having problems here with wu-ftpd v2.4 under Solaris 2.4
      and Fetch version 3.0b6.

p.p.s Sage, I have no problems with "ls -l" from a character-based
      ftp client.

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From: "Steve Maybo" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 11:15:17 PST

> On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, Jeffrey Weiss wrote:
> 
> > It seems that if one ftp's into a named, chrooted account on Soalris, at 
> > wu-ftpd-2.4   and Solaris 2.3
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > jeff weiss

I had the same problem with Mac FETCH, wu-ftpd, and Solaris.

The problem was solved by adding "READ" rights to the parent 
directory of the home directory of the user running FETCH (then they 
could get to the directory)

STEVE