Subject: Help. problem with Mac Netscape client & wu-ftpd wu-2.4(18)

From: Bala Coomandur <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 20:58:06 -0800

Greetings,

I am experiencing problems using a Netscape versions 1.1* & 2.0b* on 
a Macintosh as ftp client talking to wu-ftpd Version wu-2.4(18) 
(Sun Jan 29 00:58:05 PST 1995) The client is not able to
read even the top level directory listing. The version 1.1* client
says that "Netscape is unable to find the file / Check the filename
and try again." With Netscape 2.0b*, I get the banner message and 
the client sits there for a very long time and prints "226" where you
will normally see the list of filenames. The "226" appears to be
the message identifier for "Transfer completed" or "Abort Completed"
There was no change made to the wu-ftp setup except for the
addition of users for accessing ~ftp/private/user_name and
~ftp/incoming/user_name

The same thing done with Netscape browsers running on Solaris, Win 95
didn't have any problem. Also I could use fetch 2.1.2 on the Mac, ws_ftp
on win_95, commandline ftp client on Solaris without any problems.
Our ftp server is quite busy all the time as it is also our web server
& campus nntp-server also receiving newsfeed from the net. So there could
be some delay in connecting to the ftp server, but never did lose any
connections for me. The only other significant thing that I do note
is that there are these messages in the syslog for a very long time:
"syslog: getpeername (in.ftpd): Broken pipe"

Our ftp site is: ftp.ea.com If any of you have a Macintosh running any
version of Netscape Client, you may point it to our ftp server
and see the similar results.

I tried to subscribe to the wu-ftpd mailing list by sending a mail
message to [email-masked] and the listserv's response was that
no such mailing-list? Could someone help me with that too? 

Many thanks in advance.

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From: [email-masked] (Uwe Willenbacher)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:30:12 -0800

> "syslog: getpeername (in.ftpd): Broken pipe"

I do experience the same problem, and yes, I did try changeing the GroupID
and UserID's of the tcp and zero files within the /dev directory - I think
I tried just about everything there is to try...

I would also greatly appreatiate *any* pointers to make this work.

The funny thing, I might add is that when I login via Netscape Mac as a
*real* user, and not a guest, everything works fine and dandy...

-go figure

Cheers, Uwe

BTW: This is wu-ftp 2.4 running on SunSparc Solaris 2.4

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