Cannot connect to any ftp site.

[Brad]

Trying to connect to ANY ftp site through IE and I get the following:

Windows cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed the file name
correctly and that you have permissions to access the folder. Details: A
conneciton with the server could not be established.

Tried using ftp from the cmd prompt and when I attempt to open a (any)
conneciton to an ftp site I get "Connection closed by remote host".


I've even tried turing off my firewalls (XP network conneciton firewall and
my symantec firewall) but no change. Seems like something is blocking ftp
or perhaps what the server needs to establish ftp.

Brad

 

[Ron Lowe]

Trying to connect to ANY ftp site through IE and I get the following:

Windows cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed the file name
correctly and that you have permissions to access the folder. Details: A
conneciton with the server could not be established.

Tried using ftp from the cmd prompt and when I attempt to open a (any)
conneciton to an ftp site I get "Connection closed by remote host".


I've even tried turing off my firewalls (XP network conneciton firewall and
my symantec firewall) but no change. Seems like something is blocking ftp
or perhaps what the server needs to establish ftp.

Brad

Sounds like you're failing to establish the data connection.
Try using PASSIVE ftp mode.
( IE options, advanced tab, Enable passive FTP mode )

All 3-rd party FTP programs will support PASV mode.

The supplied command-line FTP client is poor, and does not support PASV
mode.
Get a better one here:

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

Do a ? at ths one, and see there are many more commands.
PASV is the one you need.

 

[Brad]

I neglected to mention that I already tried passive. No luck there.

Brad