I've been trying to use one of the backup servers, with not a little trouble.

It appeared that IPTABLES was blocking me. Ping told me it wasn't allowed to connect.

I couldn't find anything in APF that would do that, so I searched through /etc/sysconfig for mentions of the 10.x.x.x IPs and deleted them.

After that, I did an /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables restart and I would do a ping, and instead of getting a message that things were prohibited, ping would just *hang* there, and do nothing.

But when i come back, the next day, ping would once again tell me that it wasn't allowed to connect.

What am I missing here? I can't figure out a way to allow a ping to the storage server that sticks.

Finally, after almost two weeks, I was able to make my first contact with the storage server. I went in with SSH, and created a user with adduser. Oops. Forgot to give him a password. fixed that.

Went out of SSH and back to the web server. Tried to FTP to the storage server. Now I get a "connection refused". There's nothing on my web server that prohibits connections on port 21. Where do I find some documentation on the storage servers, that tells me what they've got running there that prohibits FTP?