Check your samba/user permissisons to the FTP location. If possible use the same permissions for the FTP login as are applied to the samba share (unless you have samba users logging in. then consider a user that is part of the samba users as well. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march@gmail.com> wrote: > Same username/password?  Yup.  The issue is, I can't then get to the > files at the Ubuntu server station. > > The deal is, the box that's now an FTP server has always been a file > server.  The location that the printer/scanner is sending to is also > shared across samba to Windows clients.  But right now, I can't even > get to the files in anything EXCEPT an FTP client. > > Huh? > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stephen wrote: >> Are they useing the same ftp credentials? >> >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march@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 >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss