Re: FTP and SP2?

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From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:04:04 GMT

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:23:13 -0600, Skylar Challand
<my.name@blatantdotca> wrote:

>Since I installed SP2 my FTP (running from IIS) is being wacky. I can
>connect to it "occasionaly" but it will usually time out and not let me
>back in. I am guessing it could be an issue with the new Firewall in
>SP2? I opened up port 21 but still the same problem. CuteFTP will give
>me an error such as:
>
> 500 'ORT 142,59,18,219,19,172': command not understood
>ERROR:> Syntax error, command unrecognized.
>ERROR:> Failed to establish data socket.
>
>
>Has anyone else had a similar problem and know how to resolve this? Thanks!

Possibly an issue with passive/active modes, but the log doesn't look
complete for the 500 response. Try with the command line FTP and see
if it's CuteFTP behaving badly.

Jeff

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