FTP Issues

[JT]

I have been having a very wierd FTP problem. If i try to
FTP from a command window,i can login fine but once i try
and LS or DIR it just hangs.
WindowsXP sp1
WSFTP works fine.

 

[Ron Lowe]

I have been having a very wierd FTP problem. If i try to
FTP from a command window,i can login fine but once i try
and LS or DIR it just hangs.
WindowsXP sp1
WSFTP works fine.

Not uncommon.
It's failing to establish the data link.

FTP uses 2 links: command and data.
There are 2 ways to do this: PORT mode and PASV mode.

Command-line FTP uses active (port) mode.

There will be a router or firewall which breaks PORT mode FTP in the path.
Probably at your end.

SW_FTP will probably be configured for passive ( PASV ) mode.

AFAIK, command-line FTP as supplied with XP doesn't support PASV mode.

You can get 3-rd party command-line FTP utils which support PASV mode.
Here's one I found earlier ( which is nice ):

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/contrib/ftp-for-win32.zip

 

[JT]

Thanks, i'll give it a try

JT

-----Original Message-----



Not uncommon.
It's failing to establish the data link.

FTP uses 2 links: command and data.
There are 2 ways to do this: PORT mode and PASV mode.

Command-line FTP uses active (port) mode.

There will be a router or firewall which breaks PORT mode FTP in the path.
Probably at your end.

SW_FTP will probably be configured for passive ( PASV ) mode.

AFAIK, command-line FTP as supplied with XP doesn't support PASV mode.

You can get 3-rd party command-line FTP utils which support PASV mode.
Here's one I found earlier ( which is nice ):

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/contrib/ftp-for- win32.zip


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Best Regards,
Ron Lowe
MS-MVP Windows Networking


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