Re: [cobalt-users] Very strange FTP problem

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 31 August 2002 12:36, Greg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having a very strange FTP problem on my RAQ 3. I am in a university
> and have a server outside in an office. I can connect to my server fine
> from any location outside the university, and I can connect to any other
> outside FTP server from the university except my own. I have tried other
> locations, computers and clients (WS FTP and the DOS prompt) inside the
> university and it still doesn't work. I also asked the tech staff here and
> they didn't know of any block. All other services (web, e-mails, telnet)
> from my RAQ are fully accessible from the university.
>
> When I try to login as any of my many site admin accounts, it enters the
>
> > This session begins in your user home directory at /users/greg
> > rl-recv: Blocking call cancelled
> >
> > logon failure, so quitting

rl-recv: Blocking call cancelled  (looks like something is blocking)
I would have another talk to the edu admin.....

> Even stranger I can connect as admin, but of course I can't upload files
> from that account.

Why can't you upload files as admin....
Just cd to where you want to put the files...
You may have to go in with ssh and change owner:group

Gerald
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