[Tfug] FTP server with proftpd - HELP, IT'S POSSESSED!!!

[Jordan Aberle]

Filesystem problem?  wierd symbol in the directory path?  permissions?

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> Welll...sorta.
>
> OK, here's the deal.  I have proftpd installed and working, with the
> gproftp front end under Ubuntu Hardy.  I can log in as a client and
> upload/download to it; at the GUI server console I've listed an upload
> location that's within the home directory (fairly far down, along the
> lines of:
>
> /home/username/Desktop/junk/somemorejunk
>
> That directory is set up as read/write by everybody.
>
> I have a nice proper static IP addy at that Hardy server station.
>
> I have two different FTP client stations, one a big networked
> printer/scanner that I want to do PDF uploads with, straight to the
> directory listed above.  And it works.  Except I can't READ that
> directory from anything else, except searches with supervisory access.
>  I can't navigate to
>
> /home/username/Desktop/junk/somemorejunk
>
> in either Nautilus or Thunar, can't read the dir listing contents.  I
> can't even at the console even if I do "sudo su" first.
>
> It's freakin' INSANE!!!
>
> Please...help...what am I doing wrong here!?
>
> Jim
>
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