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Subject: RE: FTP server on Linux(Ubuntu)
From: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
To: 'keith.thorne' <[email protected]>, Amit Chauhan <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 15:22:47 +0000
On our recent Linux systems (Centos 7) we use rsh for loading vxWorks, not ftp.  I think rsh is somewhat more secure, since it does not put clear text passwords on the network.  We have a Linux account that is only for booting the VxWorks IOCs.  Its home directory contains only a .rhosts file which contains the IP host names of the IOC that are allowed to boot.

corvette:/home/iocboot>more .rhosts
ioc13bma.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13bmc.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13bmd.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13ida.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13idc.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13idd.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13ide.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13lab.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13lab2.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13ge1.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc13ge2.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc15lab.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot
ioc15ida.cars.aps.anl.gov iocboot


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of keith.thorne
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2017 10:14 AM
To: Amit Chauhan
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FTP server on Linux(Ubuntu)

Dear Amit

	I think the problem is that ‘vsftpd’ FTP service - it likely requires authentication, security, protocols the VME machines are not up to.

Here at LIGO, we successfully transitioned some really old VME/VxWorks machines from a Solaris file server to [eventually] an Ubuntu 12.04LTS machine running nfs-kernel-server and rsh-redone-server.  We enter the machine in an rhosts table.

My limited check of ‘vsftpd’ says it is ‘Very Secure FTP Daemon’  I would start by using a more vanilla server like nfs-kernel-server

	Keith Thorne

> On Sep 1, 2017, at 7:12 AM, Amit Chauhan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This is regarding use of FTP server on a Linux (Ubuntu) PC.
> 
> I am trying to use an Ubuntu 14.04 PC as an FTP server by using the 'vsftpd' application.
> The client is a VME based CPU running vxWorks that needs to download kernel image over FTP.
> 
> This client is getting served when I am using a Windows based FTP server.
> 
> But somehow the FTP connection is not getting established between the VME client and Ubuntu based server.
> 
> The error messages I get on client side are like :
> FTP Transfer Failed
> Error Code = 0x3d  (ECONNREFUSED)
> 
> I googled about the problem and tried a few suggestion of making changes in the vsftpd.conf file , but to no avail.
> 
> Also I do not see any entry in the log file on the server (/var/log/vsftpd.log)
> 
> The FTP service seems to be running on the PC as I get a task ID. Also when I type the command 'ftp <self IP-address>' in a terminal , I get the 'ftp>' prompt.
> 
> Has anybody successfully used the vsftpd on Ubuntu (or Linux in general) PC to server an external VME like client ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Amit
> 
> 



------
Keith Thorne <[email protected]>
CDS Software Engineer
LIGO Livingston Laboratory
Livingston, LA 70754
Phone: (225)686-3168 Fax: (225)686-7189


References:
FTP server on Linux(Ubuntu) Amit Chauhan
Re: FTP server on Linux(Ubuntu) keith.thorne

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