[plug] Maildir and FTP

[Quintin Lette]

Hi,

As far as the ftp internally is concerned it seems you may be ftp'ing
your modem.

Try using the internal ip of the server.

I assume you are using NAT, and forwarding port 21 from your
modem/router (this only happens from the external network) to your
server. From the internal network if you try to access either of the
modems addresses on port 21 the modem/router will respond. If you
don't have an internal dns server that gives you the internal ip for
the server, then you will be getting your public ip (router's external
ip) when trying to resolve this domain, and hence your router will
respond when you try to access it. This will happen with all
protocols.

Your options to get around this are setup your own dns server, add the
server name in your host file on your other internal computers, or
only connect using ip addresses from the internal network.

On Linux the hosts file is:
/etc/hosts
On Windows 2K/XP it is:
%SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts

in both cases its just a text file.

Hope that helps

Cheers
Quintin

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:53:34 +0800, Joong Cho <joongcho at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've searched high and low on the www.postfix.org website and I still can't
> find how you can deliver to your local mail directory. Can you give me any
> hints? Also, how do you configure dovecot as your mail server? Do you
> uncomment every command in the dovecot.conf file?
> 
> Also, with my FTP server, I can connect to the ftp.joongcho.com site using a
> different computer in a different place, for eg at my work, but when I use
> my other computer, different from my linux computer, I can't login and I
> always get the 530 login error message. Also, why does it use VxWorks 4.2
> when I login using CuteFTP when I run proftpd server on my linux server?
> That's confusing. I assume this problem is very similar to the problem that
> I'm having with my website, accessing my domain names on the computer
> running Windows XP.
> 
> And, are there any mysql experts out there. everytime I try to login as
> mysqladmin -u root, I get the Access Denied error message. I can't create
> any databases.
> 
> I hope that's all understandable for you guys. :D
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joong Cho
> Joong Cho Enterprises
> President
> 
> Web Site Administrator and Web Site Designer
> http://www.joongcho.com/
> http://www.startreklibrary.com/
> 
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