problem accessing ftp from the browser

I have vsftpd running on Fedora 2. I tried to access my account by
typing ftp://mywebsite.com ftp://mywebsite.com/  in the browser at
work. And it worked fine (prompted me for username and password and when
I logged in, displayed a list of folders). I can't seem to do it from
home though. I can do it by using ftp client, but not from the browser.
I get the following error:

"An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure you
have permission to access that folder.
Details:
200 Switching to ASCII mode.
550 Permission denied."

Can someone tell me please why this is happening? Thanks a lot.

Olga

[Todd Johnson]

Olga Urban wrote:
> I have vsftpd running on Fedora 2. I tried to access my account by 
> typing ftp://mywebsite.com ftp://mywebsite.com/ in the browser at 
> work. And it worked fine (prompted me for username and password and 
> when I logged in, displayed a list of folders). I can’t seem to do it 
> from home though. I can do it by using ftp client, but not from the 
> browser. I get the following error:
>
> “An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure 
> you have permission to access that folder.
>
> Details:
>
> 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
>
> 550 Permission denied.”
>
> Can someone tell me please why this is happening? Thanks a lot.
>
> Olga

What browser were you trying to use?

> I have vsftpd running on Fedora 2. I tried to access my account by 
> typing ftp://mywebsite.com ftp://mywebsite.com/ in the browser at 
> work. And it worked fine (prompted me for username and password and 
> when I logged in, displayed a list of folders). I can't seem to do it 
> from home though. I can do it by using ftp client, but not from the 
> browser. I get the following error:
>
> "An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure 
> you have permission to access that folder.
>
> Details:
>
> 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
>
> 550 Permission denied."
>
> Can someone tell me please why this is happening? Thanks a lot.
>
> Olga

What browser were you trying to use?

I use IE (version 6).

[Todd Johnson]

Olga Urban wrote:
> > I have vsftpd running on Fedora 2. I tried to access my account by 
> > typing ftp://mywebsite.com ftp://mywebsite.com/ in the browser at 
> > work. And it worked fine (prompted me for username and password and 
> > when I logged in, displayed a list of folders). I can't seem to do it 
> > from home though. I can do it by using ftp client, but not from the 
> > browser. I get the following error:
> >
> > "An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure 
> > you have permission to access that folder.
> >
> > Details:
> >
> > 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
> >
> > 550 Permission denied."
> >
> > Can someone tell me please why this is happening? Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Olga
>
> What browser were you trying to use?
>
> I use IE (version 6).

try ftp://[e-mail]/ or ftp://user:[e-mail]/.

> > I have vsftpd running on Fedora 2. I tried to access my account by 
> > typing ftp://mywebsite.com ftp://mywebsite.com/ in the browser at 
> > work. And it worked fine (prompted me for username and password and 
> > when I logged in, displayed a list of folders). I can't seem to do it 
> > from home though. I can do it by using ftp client, but not from the 
> > browser. I get the following error:
> >
> > "An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure 
> > you have permission to access that folder.
> >
> > Details:
> >
> > 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
> >
> > 550 Permission denied."
> >
> > Can someone tell me please why this is happening? Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Olga
>
> What browser were you trying to use?
>
> I use IE (version 6).

try ftp://[e-mail]/ or ftp://user:[e-mail]/.

I still get the same error. I tried on Mozilla too. I get the following
error: "530: Login incorrect" I know username and password are not the
issue.

[Jim Cornette]

Olga Urban wrote:
> > > I have vsftpd running on Fedora 2. I tried to access my account by 
> > > typing ftp://mywebsite.com ftp://mywebsite.com/ in the browser at 
> > > work. And it worked fine (prompted me for username and password and 
> > > when I logged in, displayed a list of folders). I can't seem to do it
> > > from home though. I can do it by using ftp client, but not from the
> > > browser. I get the following error:
> > >
> > > "An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP Server. Make sure 
> > > you have permission to access that folder.
> > >
> > > Details:
> > >
> > > 200 Switching to ASCII mode.
> > >
> > > 550 Permission denied."
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me please why this is happening? Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > > Olga
> >
> > What browser were you trying to use?
> >
> > I use IE (version 6).
>
> try ftp://[e-mail]/ or ftp://user:[e-mail]/.
>
> I still get the same error. I tried on Mozilla too. I get the following
> error: "530: Login incorrect" I know username and password are not the
> issue.

This problem is related to some module that needs to be loaded 
ip_contracks or something. Alexander explained this earlier about how to 
setup certain files to correctly deal with this. You might browse the 
archives to get the explanation and setup.

I think this should just work. It does not however.

What I do when not connected to the outside world and only going to a 
local machine is to type
service iptables stop
I do my ftp transfers, then run
service iptables start
to reactivate the firewall.

If this does not allow you to connect to the ftp server, check your 
/var/log/messages file for errors related to avc. It might be SELinux 
related if there are avc messages in the log.

Reqarding ftp and its need for adding special rules. I have changed over 
to using samba for transferring files from Windows to Linux. Again, you 
need to manually add rules to your firewall for ports 137,138,139 and 
445. This information is in the archives also.

Jim