Re: ftp Issue

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From: "Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@xxxxxxx>

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| FTP uses port 21 for its command streams, but it opens another port to
| actually exchange data. If something about your networking setup is
| preventing other ports from opening, then that can kill an FTP
| session.
|
| In particular, using a NAT router will kill normal FTP sessions. To
| get around that you have to tell your client to use passive mode. XP's
| builtin command-line FTP client can't do that, but nearly any GUI
| client can.
|

It doesn't have to be a GUI. For example the GNU WGET.EXE utility has the --passive-ftp
switch parameter.

The TCP ports are 20 and 21.

However, since this is a WinXP problem I think it is the WinXP FireWall that is at fault.
Either it is blocking the ports, the application or both.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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