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I have a RedHat 7 server that a friend of mine setup, and he is no longer working here with us, so I have taken over. I can connect to the server and transfer files via WinSCP but I cannot connect to it via the Python script that I wrote. I get the message "failed to connect because the server actively refused it".
After digging around a bit, I did not see anything in the iptables file. It is literally empty, and I don't see any evidence of VSFTPD installed. I was however able to access the firewall setting via GUI and tried playing around with ports with no luck.
I am wondering if the reason its not working via Python is because there is no FTP transfer program installed? Please advise as I am intermediate with my skills in Linux and I am trying to figure this thing out!
RickwhoPrograms
Posted 2018-06-08T14:09:52.200
Reputation: 148
Are you running WinSCP and Python script on the same machine? Post WinSCP log file as well as your Python code. – Martin Prikryl – 2018-06-08T14:58:15.673
I think I got it, The reason was that the sever had no config file for ftp, SFTP is working just fine, but python ftplib doesnt support a method of connecting via SFTP – RickwhoPrograms – 2018-06-08T15:10:51.070
I'm going to use this information to keep researching python and ftp config! – RickwhoPrograms – 2018-06-08T15:24:10.997
SCP, SFTP and FTP are three different protocols. The former two are somewhat related (by their relation to SSH), yet still different. – Kamil Maciorowski – 2018-06-08T15:28:24.473
Yes, I knew that, I just did not realize that python's FTPLIB library didnt support SFTP, but I found an interesting issue here, and now I can have fun engineering around it to continue messing with the capabilities of both server and python! – RickwhoPrograms – 2018-06-08T15:31:04.730
Also very interesting because I know a lot of users struggle with server actively refusing things, This will be a great find to shed some light on potential reasons behind the cause of this error – RickwhoPrograms – 2018-06-08T15:32:00.687