[ale] requirements of enabling FTP under Mandrake9.2 ?

[Courtney Thomas]

Fulton,

Thank you for your reply.

I've tried passive/active. That's apparently no it.

I think you're probably right about the FreeBSD firewall being the culprit.

Asleep at the switch,

Courtney



Fulton Green wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:21:34PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
>>I've been trying to transfer a 'tar' file using ftp [to a FreeBSD 
>>machine] without success.
>>
>>1-cd to mandrake dir containing file to transfer
>>2-ftp bsdbox
>>	cd to dir to which file is to be transferred
>>		put <file>
>>
>>then, I get...........
>>
>>PORT command successful
>>Opening BINARY mode data connection for <file>
>>
>>then, mandrake hangs and nothing happens.
>>
>>What's wrong and how is it cured, please ?
>>
> 
> Sounds like an active/passive thing.  You can toggle between the two
> modes by typing "pass" at the FTP prompt.  I think passive requires some
> other randomly-selected ports to be opened up, and it wouldn't surprise me
> if they're firewalled off either by your router or by the FreeBSD box
> itself.
> 
> Just a guess ...
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