FTP Confituration of SUSE Linux Enterpriser Server 11
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is the easiest way to send and receive files over the network. Think of situations when you cannot send large files as attachments to some one. Even if you can, you never know that when that file / message will be sent and whether the other person's mail box was having enough room to accommodate your files attached with the mail message. Amongst many FTP servers, I will be discussing only the VSFTPD server in this section. Required Packages: vsftpd-2.0.7-4.16 use #rmp -qa |grep vsftpd command to ensure that vsftpf server is install on your machine. Something about FTP ports, Active mode and Passive mode FTP : In Active mode FTP, the FTP server connects to IP and port announced by client, using server's FTP data port (20). In Passive mode FTP, the server assigns / opens port on the server, tell the client about it, and then let the client connect to the new port. The FTP protocol first opens up a single connection that is call...