Not able to ftp

Folks,

My first posting in this group...I've installed SUSE 10.2 on two
VMWare virtual machines. One one of them, I've installed pure-ftpd. I
can ftp to localhost but when I try "ftp 192.168.1.1" where the ip
address is the address assigned to eth0 on the vm, I get the message:

"Connected to 192.168.1.1.
425 Sorry, invalid address given
ftp>
"

When I try to ftp from the other virtual machine, the connection
simply times out and I get the message:
"ftp: connect: Connection timed out"

Note that I am able to ping from one vm to the other vm.

It's probably some elementary issue.... Any help would be highly
appreciated.. Thanks!

- S