Re: FTP Problems

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Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:13:39 GMT

If you are behind a firewall, you may need to turn on "Passive Mode"
(aka PASV) - for Internet Explorer, this is done under the Advanced tab of
Internet Options or Properties.
For the Win2000 commandline FTP program, I don't think that there is a way to
turn on this mode - you may need to use a third-party program (ncftp is one
of many).

In article <aut4i097nmbe9tasmjssudfdgavetobe25@4ax.com>, Zapanas
<http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl> wrote:
 |
 |This may not be Windows-related at all, I am just hoping somebody else
 |may have run into the same thing.
 |
 |For the last several weeks, I haven't been able to FTP. When I try to
 |connect to several (but not all) FTP sites, I am able to log in OK but
 |when it tries to read the remote directory it just hangs forever.
 |
 |I do have anti-virus software, McAffee, but when I turn off on-access
 |virus scanning I still have the same problem, so I don't -think- that
 |is the problem. (It was my first guess)
 |
 |Has anyone run into the same thing?
 |
 |On the BBS for one of the services I am trying to FTP into somebody
 |else posted having the same problem, and only fairly recently, so I am
 |wondering if this might be related either to a Windows update on the
 |client side or to Microsoft's FTP server software on the server side.
 |
 |Thanks for any help, sorry this might not be Windows-related at all.
 |

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