[TriLUG] gFTP

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 14:44, Jim Ray wrote:
> how come every ftp site i try won't list files?


You might need to set your ftp mode to passive.  Generally problems
like this are caused by firewalls getting in the way.  When you ask
the server to send you a list of the files back, it tries to
open a connection to your machine.  A firewall will get in the way 
of that, so by specifying passive mode, the server knows that it
doesn't have to open that connection, but instead your side will
open the connection and it will use that.

Cheers,
Tanner
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