[wplug] On the subject of FTP...

[Richard Farina]

Once connect with the command line FTP client, try the command 
"PASV".  That should work, but then again, I've never tried.

-Rick Farina

At 08:02 PM 1/19/2005, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:20, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> > I just configured an anonymous FTP server on my box here, and placed it on
> > the nonstandard port of 10021.  By default (and as desired) it uses ports
> > 49152-65535 for negotiating passive FTP sessions, and so I have opened my
> > firewall to incoming packets from those ports.
> >
> > Everything works fine, though on windows machines, for uploading, I have
> > to use IE (or a dedicated FTP client program) since Mozilla Firefox
> > doesn't support FTP uploads.  The problem is that Windows FTP clients
> > (both IE and command-line FTP.EXE) fail when the client computer is behind
> > a firewall.  Mozilla Firefox does not fail on the self-same computer in
> > the same situation.  But again, it doesn't upload.
> >
> > I get the sense that this is an M$ problem and this may be the wrong forum
> > to discuss it... but Windows users not being able to use their native FTP
> > clients really hinders the server's usefulness (the only two times I've
> > had a chance to use it were both hindered by the fact that the client
> > users couldn't connect).  I would thus like to fix this problem... is
> > there *anything* I can do from my end?  Web searching has produced a few
> > pages that hint at the existence of the problem, but I haven't found any
> > 'smoking gun' page stating "Windows FTP clients are BROKEN!"
> >
> > 'Proof', based on the "Google Boolean Evaluation principle [1]":
> >
> >   /-------------------------------------------------------------------
> >   | Your search - "Windows FTP clients are broken" - did not match any
> >   | documents.
> >   |
> >   | Suggestions:
> >   |
> >   |   - Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
> >   |   - Try different keywords.
> >   |   - Try more general keywords.
> >   |
> >   | Also, you can try Google Answers for expert help with your search.
> >   \--------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > -Brandon
> >
> > [1] see http://301south.net/works/thoughts/gbep.html (if you really want
> > to know)
> > What's curious is that, once this email is archived, "Windows FTP clients
> > are BROKEN" will return a positive result on a google search....
> >
> >
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>I believe this is because the Windows ftp.exe doesn't support 'passive'
>ftp mode (aka the PASV command).  You could have the Windows users open
>port 21 on their firewalls, or do a port forward of port 21 on their end
>to the machine behind their firewall trying to access the server.  This
>probably isn't an ideal solution for you though, but should work.
>
>HTH
>
>--
>Carl Benedict
>Pittsburgh Techs
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