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I have set up a Vsftp server using the following instructions provided Here and even went as far as following the commentary at the bottom. But I am unable to connect remotely. When I attempt to use FileZilla or my Ubuntu terminal, I always get:

ryan@ryan-Galago-UltraPro:~$ ftp 10.0.x.xx
ftp: connect: Connection timed out
ftp>

I have checked and re-checked iptables conf file and made sure that Port 21 is being Accepted and it is. I have looked this up on the web and decided to try nmap to port scan it and this is what I get for a result:

ryan@ryan-Galago-UltraPro:~$ nmap -PN 10.0.xx.xx

Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-08-19 15:01 EDT
Nmap scan report for 10.0.xx.xx
Host is up.
All 1000 scanned ports on 10.0.xx.xx are filtered

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 201.38 seconds

Is there anything else that I should do or check for?

UPDATE: I have tried to ping from the virtual machine to my IP address on Ubuntu and have been successfully able to. I cannot ping to my virtual machine from Ubuntu. I have narrowed this down to possibly being a firewall related issue on Ubuntu's side, but why would I be unable to connect from FileZilla?

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ryekayo
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  • Can you ping from the host to the guest? Could you run `ifconfig` in the guest and add its output to your question? What is the guest's network interface attached to? It's set to NAT, right? – Kenster Aug 19 '14 at 20:24

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I cannot assure your error is because of SE Linux context issue, but try changing context using following command

chcon -Rt public_content_t /var/ftp/pub

To Display the context

ls -Z /var/ftp/pub

Additionally set Boolean value as follows

setsebool -p ftp_home_dir 1

setsebool -p allow_ftpd_full_access 1

After all restart the service 

service vsftpd restart
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  • The only folder i see in `/var/ftp/` is pub, so I followed as instructed and still can't connect from outside source. Is there a way to disable SE Linux? – ryekayo Aug 19 '14 at 20:11
  • try the command setenforce 0 then check getenforce and confirm it is in permissive mode, then check it again.FYI this will only disable selinux temporarily.. – Tom Aug 19 '14 at 20:14
  • I turned selinux to permissive. And still nothing, this is so frusterating how they make these how-to articles so easy and yet it isnt – ryekayo Aug 19 '14 at 20:18
  • check ping to your ip, also check tcpwrapper, firewall and kerberos,answer edited check again – Tom Aug 19 '14 at 20:25
  • I updated my question – ryekayo Aug 19 '14 at 20:37
  • ru trying to connect from unbuntu ? if you set firewall and block all outgoing connections for port number 20 and 21 how can you connect to ftp ? try the command ftp – Tom Aug 19 '14 at 21:21
  • I am trying to connect from ubuntu and disabled firewalls on CentOS and Ubuntu and I still cannot connect. I have already tried that command many times – ryekayo Aug 19 '14 at 21:23