Comments on: Installing and setting TFTPD in Ubuntu

By: sobi

sobi — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:51:54 +0000

the last post from Jeff works, but any suggestion to PUT file,
which doesnt exist on server?

helpdeskdans post doesnt work form me,

1) i have installed and set up all by tutorial
2) then installed tftpd-hpa tftpd-hpa
3) added ‘- c’ to /etc/inetd.conf by helpdeskdan post
4) sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

sobi@sobi-laptop:~$ ls -las | grep test
4 -rw-r–r– 1 sobi sobi 14 2010-03-01 02:15 test.txt
sobi@sobi-laptop:~$ tftp 192.168.1.153
tftp> put test.txt

and nothing happend…

thanks

By: helpdeskdan

helpdeskdan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:35:36 +0000

If you want to put, and the file doesn’t exist, you need the -c option, which doesn’t appear to be around in this version. Try tftpd-hpa and put a -c in your /etc/inetd.conf, like so:

tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -c -s /var/lib/tftpboot

By: Nolan

Nolan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:35:56 +0000

Thanks, worked like a charm

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:55:33 +0000

Sorry. Bad characters in my file names got removed on post:

To fix:
1. cd /tftpboot
2. touch file_you_want_to_put
3. chmod 777 file_you_want_to_put

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:53:57 +0000

A lot of folks seem to be having trouble writing files to the tftp server. Here is one possible solution:

For the “tftpd” installed in Step 1 (for Karmic anyway), a copy to the tftp server can only be done if the file already exists in /tftpboot and is writable by all. It has nothing to do with the “user=” setting or the /tftpboot permissions (which should be 777 per the instructions).

To fix:
1. cd /tftpboot
2. touch
3. chmod 777

Now the tftp put from the remote server should work.

Hope this helps.

By: ShArk

ShArk — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:53:16 +0000

David, big thx for clear tuting through tftp-server setting
Tonuh, great thx for instansing that for correct sending cd should be /tftpboot

By: roh

roh — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:19:33 +0000

thanks tonyh! very helpful

By: tonyh

tonyh — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:11:04 +0000

I must say this worked for me – the key things to do are as follows:
1. Make sure the config is tabbed properly between the braces { ..}
2. Make sure that the premissions are set AND you CD /TFTPBOOT
3. Make sure you have your computers IP CORRECT.
4. If you get no ’sent xxx bytes’ message and just get a prompt after the put and get between the two terminal windows (one client and one server) (which happened to me dispite using verbose mode) you can confirm that the file was sent by doing a LS -L /TFTPBOOT and looking that the files timestamp!
5. Remember in actual use what you you want to setup the tftp server is tptp (to the) CLIENTIP and PUT the file.
6. From the client tftp SERVERIP and get the file… (yes, Of course its all obvoius, but when reflashing a dead box through a mistake means 1-2 days wasted its important to get it right)

By: alze

alze — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:09:52 +0000

good clear instructions, might be worth pointing out to modify tftpd-hpa as well
+-
#Defaults for tftpd-hpa
RUN_DAEMON=”yes”
#OPTIONS=”-l -s /var/lib/tftpboot”
OPTIONS=”-l -s /tftpboot”
+-

By: tom

tom — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:24:31 +0000

On Ubuntu 9.10/Linux Mint 8 installation is pretty straightforward

- Install tftpd, which has a dependency on openbsd-inetd
- Do a /etx/xinit.d/openbsd-inetd restart

Configuration is in /etc/inetd.conf, tftp home directory was set to /srv/tftp on my system. Manually created this and set owner to nobody