Troubles initiating an ftp session

Dear all I have set up ppp dialup networking on a number of remote pcs. I
can dial in and run a browser, connect using phditto etc, but when I try to
connect using ftp it timeouts, but if I try again straight away everything
is OK, anyone got any ideas on why it doesn’t work the first time.

Rod

Dear All

Some futher information.
On my machine I get the first time
421 Service not available server timeout connection closed

The next time I get a login USER message

using inetd -d

someone wants ftp
accept, ctrl 3

execl /usr/sbin/ftp // no luck

someone wants ftp
accept, ctrl 3

execl /usr/sbin/ftp
reaped, status 0x100 // Success
reaped, status 0 // Quit ftp

using ftpd -l
from syslog
<–220
###.###.###.### FTP server ready
lost connection // no luck
<–220
###.###.###.### FTP server ready
command USER ftpuser // Success

“Rodney Stevens” <rod.stevens@csiro.au> wrote in message
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Dear all I have set up ppp dialup networking on a number of remote pcs. I
can dial in and run a browser, connect using phditto etc, but when I try
to
connect using ftp it timeouts, but if I try again straight away everything
is OK, anyone got any ideas on why it doesn’t work the first time.

Rod