connection closed by remote host

I'm new at unix, and i'm clueless how to setup an ftp server. But someone supposidly already set up the sun box here to accept ftp. Solaris OS 5.7.

Anyways I'm in a network of all windows based machines, and one unix. I'm trying to ftp to the unix machine, and it says;

Connected to unix.
Connection closed by remote host.

So how can i get the sun box to stop closing the connection so I can transfer files?

Hi gaujun,

on your Solaris machine check if the following line in /etc/services is there and not commented out:


and also check in /etc/inetd.conf for this line:


If the file /etc/ftpusers exists, the username you use to ftp to the machine should not be in there, or else ftp access will be denied.

If this doesn't help check the ftpd manpage. It lists the requirements to allow ftp access.

Regards,
Stef.