Proftpd behind a smoothwall box

OSF · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject: Proftpd behind a smoothwall box

I am curently trying to set up an ftpserver using proftpd and I can access it locally using ftp://user@192.168.1.197 (smoothwall box being 192.168.1.1) but as soon as I try to give acess to my friends via the internet they are not able to connect as the connection times out. On the smoothwall box I have forwarded ports 20 and 21 and also passive ports 60000:65535 to 192.168.1.197

My /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf file is as follows:

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ServerName "ProFTPD on GMC
ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on
RequireValidShell off
AuthPAM off
AuthPAMConfig ftp
Port 21
Umask 022

MaxInstances 30

User proftpd
Group proftpd

RootLogin on
LoginPasswordPrompt on

<Global>
DefaultRoot /mnt/hdb/FTP/
AllowForeignAddress on
tcpNoDelay on
</Global>

PassivePorts 60000 65535
MasqueradeAddress osf.homelinux.com

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Any help would be greatly apreciated

curtis119 · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 1:39 am Post subject:

according to the smoothwall admin handbook
http://download.smoothwall.org/archive/docs/2.0/admin.pdf

there is code built in that handles ftp server traffic automatically. All you need to do is forward port 21 to whichever ip address has the ftp server on it and smoothwall does the rest. I think all the extra forwarding you did confused it.
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OSF · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:39 am Post subject:

That was the first way that I tried because of the smoothwall admin manual, when that didn't work I kept searching the forums and found that port 20 and to set the passive ports and forwarded the restricted ranges. Thaks for the thought though it is apreciated.