Re: FTP Problem

From: Jack Gillis (XXXXXXXX_at_widomaker.com)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:09:48 -0500

Yes, I forgot to mention, Passive FTP is enabled in Internet Options.
Thank you.

"Sergio Pozzetti" <sergio@pozzetti.com> wrote in message
news:uB535Jr4EHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Jack,
>
> My guess is, since you're behind a router which (I speculate here) has
> NAT firewalling, you should enable PASSIVE FTP in the Advanced tab of
> your Internet Explorer Options (section "browsing").
>
> Bye,
>
> Sergio Pozzetti - sergio@pozzetti.com
>
> "Jack Gillis" <XXXXXXXX@widomaker.com> wrote in message
> news:10s0i1o4m68j38d@corp.supernews.com...
>> It has been a long time since I tried to download a file via ftp.
>> This morning I tried and failed no matter which file and which site.
>> Usually I get a message that says something like 'could not connect
>> to server.' Sometime IE6 just hangs for a long time. The same thing
>> using Firefox.
>>
>> I am running XP SP2 behind a router to a DSL connection. Things seem
>> to work fine in all other respects but downloading from an ftp site
>> but from an ftp site fails. I can download via http with no problem.
>>
>> Is there something special I need to do to enable ftp downloads?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>
>

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