Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05753; Fri, 29 Sep 95 21:09:25 EDT Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17349; Fri, 29 Sep 95 21:08:58 EDT Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA10201 ; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:01:59 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA10084 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:00:10 -0700 Received: from fledge.watson.org (FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.95.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA10076 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 18:00:06 -0700 Received: (from robert@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.6.11/8.6.10) id VAA03018; Fri, 29 Sep 1995 21:00:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 21:00:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: nis/ftp Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm now running nis between two FreeBSD systems I have -- the pentium is serving nis, and the 386 is client. the various partitions are nfs mounted over, and users can log in, etc. But for some reason they cannot ftp in, getting this: fledge>ftp thithle Connected to thithle.watson.org. robert 220 thithle.watson.org FTP server (Version 6.00) ready. Name (thithle:robert): 530 User robert access denied. ftp: Login failed. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> The local console gets this error: Sep 29 20:58:31 thithle ftpd[244]: FTP LOGIN REFUSED FROM FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU, robert NIS appears to work fine except for this.. does anyone have any thoughts as to what to do? It's not vital that ftp works, but I'm concerned that if ftp doesn't, other things might also have problems. Thanks,. Robert Watson