ftp passive mode
Alex White
prata at kuei-jin.org
Mon Jul 12 23:23:57 UTC 2004
Overdorf, Sam wrote:
<top posting relocated to bottom>
>>When I try to download from "download.fedora.redhat.com" (using ftp)
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> it
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>>complains about me not being in passive mode.
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>>Well the client I'm using does not support passive mode therefore I
>>can't list the files (ls, dir) and I can't get (get) the files.
>>
>>Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this with my ftp client?
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> Sam, it helps if you tell us what ftp client you are using. Without
> that information there's not a whole lot anyone can tell you other
> than, "Get a different ftp client."
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> Alex White
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> It is the ftp client on my windows xp box.
Okie, so you mean from the command line of xp, I assume. By the by
please don't top post. Anyhow, use a different client. WSFTP works
fine, but you need a client that will actually do passive mode.
Otherwise, it's pretty worthless.
HTH
Alex White
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