FTP, Win-NT, and xFTP

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 29.12.2003 schrieb Krikket um 05:26:
> So there's a site out there I want to snarf a lot of material from.  Let's
> call it foobaz.net.  (That's actually my domain, but for the purposes of
> this discussion, it's good enough.)
> 
> While I was running Suse, I found that gftp just didn't work with that
> site for some reason, but xftp did.  So I used xftp.  But now I'm running
> Fedora, and xftp doesn't come with the distro, and I don't see it in the
> apt or yum repositories.
> 
> When I ftp to the site, the system hangs when I attempt to do a "ls".
> This *only* happens (and it happens all the time) when I attempt to use
> Fedora gftp or even go to a shell prompt and run "ftp foobaz.net".
> 
> 
> What I see is:
> 331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity (e-mail name) as password.
> Password:
> 230-Backup Copies for Licenced Use Only!
> 230 Anonymous user logged in.
> Remote system type is Windows_NT.
> ftp> ls
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,101,5,163).
> 
> And then it hangs.  If I let it sit long enough, it also disconnects.

[ snip ]

> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Krikket

You ran in to the problem with active and passive ftp mode. You must
tell your client running in active mode when connecting your ftp server.

227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,101,5,163).

You see, it is telling you the mode. Within gftp I think passive mode is
the default mode. Switch it by entering teh menu FTP -> Options -> FTP
-> passive filetransports: no check.

Alexander


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