How to access the Local FTP YUM repo from client Machine

Question

I setup the FTP server on Machine A 192.168.1.105 and created the YUM repo. And placed following contents in it.

#vi rhel-localftp.repo

[rhel-localftp.rep]
name=bla bla bla
baseurl=file:///var/ftp/pub/Server(RPMs are under Server folder)
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

then installed httpd everything worked fine on Machine A.

Now turn of Machine B 192.168.1.106

I created the repository to access the RPMs from Machine A and contents are

#vi remoteftp.repo

[rhel-remoteftp.rep]
name=bla bla bla
baseurl=ftp://192.168.1.105/var/ftp/pub/Server
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

and then i tried to install package and it gave me this error

Note: There is no Firewall in between them

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Do i have to install FTP server also on Machine B

Damn, something is wrong with FTP server itself. It was running but when I restarted everything started working.

Rahul Patil · Answer 1 · 2013-02-27 03:14:35Z

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Since default home directory for ftp is /var/ftp/pub so there is no need to provide "/var/ftp" in "baseurl" parameter.

baseurl=ftp://192.168.1.105/var/ftp/pub/Server  # WRONG

baseurl=ftp://192.168.1.105/pub/Server          # Correct

Also make sure , you are able to connect ftp server , so you can just check using ftp server-ip to check connectivity.

answered Feb 27 at 3:14

Rahul Patil
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	Ok this time i just used baseurl=192.168.1.105/pub/Server but got the same error – OmiPenguin Feb 27 at 7:55
	are you able to browse same ftp url from your browser in client end ? – Rahul Patil Feb 27 at 8:30
	No not even from Browser. I tried both 192.168.1.105 and 192.168.1.105/pub/Server but no use – OmiPenguin Feb 27 at 9:19
	Rahul, there was problem with the FTP server itself I restarted it now its working. But thanks for giving me correct information about baseurl and how to use it. – OmiPenguin Feb 27 at 9:29

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