Re: simple ftp problem

[Lokesh Setia <lsetia78@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robins,

Do you wish to share your dos partition for the anonymous user or
for some other user on your system?

If you wish to share it for a non-anonymous user, say for 'rbs', you
need to give it all permissions by:

# mount /dev/hda1 /dir/to/mount -o uid=`id -u rbs`

Then you can either just cd to /dir/to/mount after ftp'ing or you can
make a symbolic link:

$ ln -s /dir/to/mount ~/dos

Hope this helps,
Loki.

>>>>> "Robins" == Robins Tharakan <vavilu@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Robins> hi, i was actually feeling stupid at this simple problem,
    Robins> or so to me it seems.  i need to share my "dos" partition
    Robins> using ftp (with read/write facilities)

    Robins> i guess i sure am missing out some simple method of doing
    Robins> this, but here's what all i tried..!

    Robins> 1. mount /dev/hda1 to /var/ftp/pub/dos (but write access
    Robins> was denied..)

    Robins> 2. i tried to add a user "rbs" to the ftp group. and then
    Robins> connect fo ftp using "rbs".

    Robins> 3. "chown rbs:rbs /var/pub" (although its security wise
    Robins> insane, but anyways, even that didnt work..-- probably coz
    Robins> /var was owned by root:root...)

    Robins> 4. tried to create a hard link for /dos , but hard link
    Robins> for directories is not allowed...

    Robins> ! please, if anyone could help me out...


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