ftp permission

Hello all,

   I am trying to ftp some scripts to a linux server and I get an error saying:  

The FTP server returned this error:
A connection can not be established
Please try again.  

Is there an admin permission that has to be set up for my userid? Or is there some ftp protocol that needs to be run? I'm somewhat new to linux......  

Brian

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