Ians Ramblings

Sorry, yet another geek post. I was trying to get eyefi to deliver images to my NAS Box which is running VSFTPd (Very Secure FTP Daemon) behind my router with network address translation and passive mode would not work which is all that eyefi supports.

To get VSFTPd to work behind your router you need to edit the /etc/vsftpd.conf file and add one simple extra line: -

pasv_address=x.y.z.t

Where x.y.z.t is your externally accessible IP address, if you don’t know it, get it from here http://www.whatismyip.com/

I had a slight issue today with Pure-FTPd getting it to create the home directories when new users log in for the first time. OK so the problem is, you set the option in /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf to create home directories on login but it doesn’t work. In addition there’s no info in /var/log/messages or in the pure-ftpd log itself.

Luckily and kind of expected, it’s just about the permissions on the overall folder in which your user home directories are. Basically in the set up we had they should be owned by root.

An example with rather poor English can be found here http://technote.wsjoung.com/2008/04/15/pure-ftpd-mysql-error-home-directory-not-available-aborting/