Re: FTP Problem

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

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:48:14 -0500

EUREKA! as an ancient Greek said. The problem lay in the Westell
router. I had its firewall set a notch too high. I lowered one notch
and now I can ftp to my hearts content and still remain 'stealthed'
according to Shields Up. Yes, I know I am paranoid :).

I still don't understand why I was able to ftp from the command line but
not from either IE or Firefox if problem lay in the router but I'm not
going to worry about.

Thanks for getting me started in the right direction.

"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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