FTP from Windows to linux server

[mr bogus]

About two weeks ago I began a thread regarding FTPing from my Windows box to my Linux Server on my private network so i could practice buiding web sites before launching them live on the internet. I had been unable to get it working and since a solution (rather simple) was found, I thought I'd share it.

I was under the impression it was a Samba issue and tried endlessly to adjust settings in my smb.conf without success. I have a Linksys router which serves the internet and connects my local network to three computers.

My attempts to connect the computers using Network Neighborhood on the Win machines failed but I have been able to use ftp which is what i wanted in the first place. The secret? Well, more like the mistake I was making was being logged in as root instead of a regular user. Once I logged in with my regular user account and password I was able to ftp files over. I had to free up permissions on the docs and folders involved but once that was done all was free and easy.

I would still like to learn how to network the computers for direct file sharing if anyone knows (probably Samba configuration) but at least I was able to get my website projects underway since ftp was working. Hope this helps another along the way.

Mr. Bogus

[yogee]

Look into webmin http://www.webmin.com/webmin

Set it up with SSL and control your server via your web browser. There are many features included and samba is one of them. You can configure the whole thing pretty easy with it. I havent set my whole linux server to share, and dont think i need to, but it can be done.

[Les]

My hard drive recently suffered a failure and I was running samba. Friends configured the linux box for me and we were able to reinstall linux on the boot partition. I would like to retrieve the 4500+ mp3's off the mp3 partition and FTP seems like the way to go without adding a bunch of stuff to the system and maybe causing more damage to the fragile drive.

I am running RH 7.1, I have wu-ftp in xinetd.d enabled and xinetd service is running. I am not logging in as root from my windows box. I am using ws_ftp le to try to get into in my linux box (win98 does stupid things, like not let you use different login names than the one you used to log into win98).
I get connection refused whether I use the linux box name or ip. I can ping. I haven't tried telnetting since it won't let transfer files back and forth anyway, as far as I know.
Any suggestions on what to try next?
Les