how to enable tftp on mountain lion

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claudevz800 Author

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how to enable tftp on mountain lion

Hi,

I just tried to enable tftpd on 10.7 but I have some permission problems.

Thanks to have a look into my config

I did:

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! Edit directory to change to <string>/Users/claude/Documents/tftpboot</string>)

sudo nano /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist

! Unload and load plist file

MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ sudo launchctl unload -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist

MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ sudo launchctl load -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist

! Stop and start tftpd deamon

MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ sudo launchctl stop com.apple.tftpd

MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ sudo launchctl start com.apple.tftpd

! test

tftp> get 192.168.0.5:test.txt

tftp: test.txt: Permission denied

tftp>

These are the directory rights:

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MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ ls -lisa /Users/claude/Documents/tftpboot

total 8

6630736 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 claude staff 102 6 nov 20:53 .

679758 0 drwx------ 32 claude staff 1088 6 nov 20:35 ..

3122519 8 -rw-r--r--@ 1 claude staff 2258 8 jui 16:09 test.txt

Trace in on however I do not have any logs.

Posted on Nov 6, 2012 12:00 PM

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Answer 1

etresoft

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Nov 6, 2012 6:26 PM in response to claudevz800

The Documents folder has very restrictive permissions by default. Move tftpboot to somewhere else.

Is there a reason why you specifically want tftp? scp would be better.

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Answer 2

claudevz800 Author

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Nov 6, 2012 11:55 PM in response to etresoft

Thanks Etresoft for your help, I'm using tftp to backup and restore config from network devices.

It still not working.

I changed the setting of /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist

to use directory <string>/tftpboot</string>

! Changed tftpboot right to 777 !

MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ ls -lisa /tftpboot

total 8

6630736 0 drwxrwxrwx 3 claude staff 102 6 nov 20:53 .

! Unload and load plist file

MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ sudo launchctl unload -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist

MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ sudo launchctl load -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist

! Stop and start tftpd deamon

MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ sudo launchctl stop com.apple.tftpd

MacBook-Air-de-Claude:~ claude$ sudo launchctl start com.apple.tftpd

! test

tftp> get 192.168.0.5:test.txt

tftp: test.txt: Permission denied

tftp>

Same issue.

Same problem again

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Answer 3

etresoft

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Nov 7, 2012 4:19 AM in response to claudevz800

I didn't check /tftpboot. I just checked /Users/me/tftpboot and it worked fine.

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Answer 4

claudevz800 Author

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Nov 7, 2012 5:14 AM in response to etresoft

I moved to /Users/claude/tftpboot and chmod 777, however it is the same issue.

I do not know how to troublehoot.

Claude

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Answer 5

etresoft

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Nov 7, 2012 8:29 AM in response to claudevz800

Do you have the firewall turned on or something?

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Answer 6

claudevz800 Author

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Nov 7, 2012 11:57 AM in response to etresoft

I did my tests with the firewall disabled

Thanks anyway for your help

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Answer 7

claudevz800 Author

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Nov 7, 2012 12:16 PM in response to claudevz800

Put directory back to /private/tftpboot

I realize now that I'm able to get (read) a file from another computer but not put (write)

It is already better.

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Answer 8

claudevz800 Author

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Nov 7, 2012 12:41 PM in response to claudevz800

It works !!!

So I found that in order to be able to write a file I need to use full path on TFTP server !

Ex: from remote computer

tftp 192.168.0.5

put test.txt /Users/claude/tftpboot/test.txt

however I also found that the file need to exist already, just touch test.txt.

Thanks EtreSoft for your help, really appreciated.

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