On Wednesday 06 July 2005 10:38 pm, Barry Brimer wrote: > Is there any NAT involved on the client or server end? If so, are > you using ip_nat_ftp and ip_conntrack_ftp? The above lines led me in the right direction. I needed to load ip_conntrack_ftp. My firewall, the "kiss" firewall (it manages netfilter through iptables) was attempting to load ip_conntrack_ftp.o, instead of ip_conntrack_ftp.ko. One letter fix to the kiss firewall code, and the active/passive problem fixed. > > When we turn off our firewall (which allows passive under CentOS 3 > > on a 2.4 kernel) we don't get the connection timeout on passive > > transfers, but we still get the 533. > > > > Any ideas where we should go from here? > > Long shot. Does your FTP server chroot your users? If so, the > remote end may not be able to handle /home/jlasman/<filename> because > it would already see /home/jlasman as / and therefore would require a > home and home/jlasman to be able to place the file where you have > indicated. It was simpler and stupider... Once I got the active/passive thingy fixed, I still had the 553 error, so I switched the user to the bash shell. Then I didn't have the 553 error anymore. But I knew that the nologin shell should have worked as well, since it's listed in /etc/shells. So I changed the /etc/passwd file back to use the nologin shell, and it worked. So I must have had a typo in the /etc/passwd file last night. So for now I'm (again and still) happy with CentOS 4. Thanks everyone! <smile> Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services 1254 So Waterman Ave., Suite 50, San Bernardino, CA 92408 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"