Anonymous FTP

[Nathan Flint]

I have been trying some others things but the error message
when I use the command:
mount -t lo -o ro /real/files /anon/ftp/files

is not "lo" is not a block device but
FileSystem type "lo" is not supported by the kernel



Nathan Flint wrote:

> I have an anonymous FTP server and want to allow access
> to a directory not within the subdirectory that anonymous FTP
> users are allowed to access.  Symbolic links dont work. I have
> looked around on the Inet and discovered that I have to mount
> the directory from outside the FTP to inside the anonymous ftp
> directory.  It's called a loopback file system.
>
> I've tried some examples like:
> mount -t lo -o ro /real/files /anon/ftp/files
>
> But it says that "lo" is not a block device, like a hard disk, floppy,
> ect.
> I think I need to make the directory into a mountable file system
> but I am not sure.
>
> Has anyone done this before? Thanks!
>
> -Nate