Thanks for the suggestion but I had already done that. I'm using a tftpboot
directory as the home directory and the ownership is tftpd.tftpd.

Any other ideas.

"W Cardwell" <wrong@email.address> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure but the error message sounds like you may have a typo in the
> tftpd group entry?
>
> Check the ownership and permissions on the tftp root directory: It should
be
> owned by tftpd and not by root. Also, by default, tftp clients will not be
> allowed to create new files, only overwrite existing ones. If you want to
> allow new files to be created by clients you need the -c flag in the
command
> line.
>
> --
>
> wcardwell at nc dot rr dot com
>
>
> "Mike Wing" <mike.wing@primedia.com> wrote in message
> news:bgei4h$10p$1@news.prmautomotive.com...
> > has anyone had any luck getting a tftp server running and configured to
> > allow file uploads from a remote device to the tftp server running on
the
> > linux server? I have tried to get tftp-hpa-0.34 running. It complies
> without
> > error but when I try and upload from another device, I get the follow
> error.
> > in.tftpd[procid]: cannot set groups for user tftpd.
> >
> > The process is set to run as user tftpd in the xinetd file. There are
both
> > the user and group tftpd setup on the box.
> >
> > Any ideas would be helpfull.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>