Newbie FTP question

[Ronald Hawkins]

Shadow wrote:

> Hi all.......been working with linux (Fedora Core 2) for about 3 weeks 
> now.  It has been interesting!  I fought and scratched for each 
> accomplishmenttBut I got a problem that is nagging me.  I did buy two 
> reference books -- Fedora Core 2 Unleashed and Sams "Learn Fedora Core 
> 2 in 24 Hours". and am on my way to get one on GNOME... I have gotten 
> the core installed....got samba working....all the windows machines 
> can see the linux box and I have the drives mapped.  Got 
> Apache/MySQL/PHP installed and I created a PHP page with dreamweaver 
> for PHPinfo and it displays....so now I am working on the FTP server.  
> I can't access it tho'.  The error says that the directory can't be 
> accessed....so I have been looking around....what directory?  I never 
> configured one!   So where do I find where the FTP root is?  None of 
> my books state that and I looked thru files that I am a reasonable 
> shade of blue and STILL can't figure it out.
> Can anyone help?
>  
> Shadow

Ftp root should be located under /var/ftp some people prefer /home/ftp.  
Hope this helps you out.

:)
Ron