Problem with ftp-connection through a firewall...

Sat Sep 17 08:51:43 UTC 2005

Strong wrote:
> Hi.
> I have Gates product 98 on VMware 5.0 and want to connect it to vsftpd
> on my FC4 with firewall enabled, with incoming http and ftp allowed.
> Still I'm unable to connect to vsftpd, although it's possible to do to
> web-server. Of course, when firewall is disabled, ftp-connection is
> possible.
> Please, any suggestions, doc-links...
> 

Try as root:

# modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp

If that doesn't do it then you may need to mess around with the SELInux 
setings...

-M