How to increase the ftp user limit

anandit404 · New User Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 6 Location: Mumbai

how to increase the ftp user limit...

so that to avoid the ftp error 421

expat · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:13 pm

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:35 pm

FTP 421 means service not available. That could mean FTP is not started on the server you're attempting to connect to, or that the server is not using a standard FTP port to listen to (in which case you need to provide the actual port number), or various other reasons. Without more data -- which only your site support group can provide -- that's about all we can tell you.

PeterHolland · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:09 pm

Robert, if you dont mind i want to add some more reasons :

not authorized
max connections reached

Im not sure a user limit can be increased.

So i would as a ftp user take care that im authorized and if so,
try to logon later, or using software that can schedule ftp sessions.

Damn, didnt see the previous post of the TS. Have to stop drinking this
early.

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:27 pm

Peter -- I only wish I could be drinking but 8 AM is a bit early here.

The "service not available" could be many things, some that can be changed and others that cannot. Based on the limited data provided by the TS so far, there is no evidence what the precise problem is and the TS insistence on increasing the user limit (which would depend upon the FTP software being used) may -- or may not -- have anything to do with actually solving the problem.