[ale] FTP from Windoze box and audio question

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 08:54, Pete Hardie wrote:
> ....it's a 2-fer, today....
> 
> (BTW, I really think this list is great....I start feeling guilty when I can't 
> help someone else out, because of all the good help I've gotten from the list 
> members over the past few years....)
> 
> First, a question - I've been trying to set up things so my wife can ftp some of 
> her files over to my RedHat box, in prep for putting Cygqin on her machine, and 
> letting her do stuff remotely.  I appear to have FTP set up ok - xinetd and all 
> that.  I can ftp locally ok, but ftp from her box fails.  Now, I'm using the Run 
> menu option for the 'built-in' FTP on her machine, and I get the FTP SYN, but my 
> machine reports "Destination unreachable'.  However, ping works both directions. 
>   Any suggestions appreciated.

Check firewall setup. You need to have ports 20 and 21 open for passive
ftp. If ssh works, use sftp instead. On a home LAN, the added security
is not important unless it's your machine that connects to the DSL line
:)

> 
> Second, a pure Linux problem.  I'm trying out Sphinx speech recognition, and I 
> cannot get the audio system to let me record anything.  I believe I was able to 
> pre-RH8, but all I get now is silence in the files, whether I use rec, the Gnome 
> sound tool, etc.  I've tried adjusting levels with aumix, and the Gnome level 
> tool.  I can play sound from CD, from ogg files, and when I am recording, I hear 
> the sounds on the speakers, but nothing gets to the disk.  I probably can work 
> my tests with .wav file from the Windoze box, but it's got me stumped.

Me too. The only thing running around my not-yet-caffine-soaked brain is
a permissions error on the dsp input port. 
> 
> TIA,
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