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On 5/1/07, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Robin Cornelius wrote: > > > > I am sure its somthing I am doing wrong but just cannot see what. > > Did you check again with FTP to see if you'd got yourself locked out due > to repeated failures? > > Any odd characters in username or password? > > As Steve suggests - definitely the right server? Resolved IP address is > what you expect? > > If it fails at login, then FTP isn't a lot different from telnet, so I > don't think there is anything too deep happening. > Ok Thanks Steve and Simon for sugestions, a quick dsniff revealed the problem, coffee at lunchtime did wonders. thefatcontroller:/home/robin# dsniff dsniff: listening on eth0 ----------------- 05/01/07 13:17:29 tcp hirst-magnetics.demon.co.uk.1044 -> mdh0.xxxxxxx.com.21 (ftp) USER anonymous PASS NcFTP@ it appears that the -u flag MUST be passed before the host name/address or it is ignored. As soon as i did that it asked me for my password and then loged in Thanks! -- Robin Cornelius http://www.byteme.org.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html