can't download from ftp sites.

[Rob]

hi.

if anyone could help me on this one, i would be so very
grateful.

i recently uninstalled MS Java VM, and installed Sun
Java. Now I can't download from ftp sites. I click on
the links, and nothing happens, where a window used to pop
up asking me where i wanted to download the file. do i
need to reinstall MS Java VM, and if so, how do i do it?
or is theere another issue that i am perhaps not seeing?

thanks in advance.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi Rob,
It seems to be a firewall problem.Disable firewall and retry.
Have you tried logging into the ftp sites using a dedicated ftp program

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Guest]

I am experiencing the same problem as Rob. When I mouse over FTP links and try to click, they just don't work (or I see a message that server connection cannot be established). This happens with every FTP link I try. I am using McAfee Personal Firewall Plus, and I disabled it (as well as disabling all McAfee services) and I am still having no luck accessing FTP sites. I thought maybe there is a setting in Explorer that is preventing this

I did also try logging into FTP sites through Dreamweaver - no luck

I am at wit's end

----- S.Sengupta wrote: ----

Hi Rob
It seems to be a firewall problem.Disable firewall and retry
Have you tried logging into the ftp sites using a dedicated ftp progra

regards
ssg MS-MV
pronetworks.or



Rob wrote

 

[Rob Schneider]

Try using the FTP program available on the command prompt box. This
will help identify if this a network or a browser issue.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[David Candy]

Try turning on passive FTP. If using IE it's in the Advanced options page.

 

[Guest]

How do I access the "command prompt box"?

----- Rob Schneider wrote: -----

Try using the FTP program available on the command prompt box. This
will help identify if this a network or a browser issue.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Rob Schneider]

Will be found on the one of the menu commands available from the start
menu. Or Start/Run the command "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe" without
the quotes. Once you get a command prompt box, enter the command "ftp
xxxxx" (without quotes) where xxxxx is the server you are trying to
attach to. Learn how to use this ftp program by issues the the command
"help" (without quotes) or read in Windows XP help about this program.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Jim Carlock]

"David Candy" explained:

Try turning on passive FTP. If using IE it's in the Advanced
options page.

Dave (or anyone else that might know),

Do you know what the difference is between Passive FTP
and "Unpassive"?

 

[David Candy]

Well I have known in the past. From dim memory with guesses to fill in blanks. I believe FTP requires both ends to be servers (a server recieves request/clients initiate things - this is not web talk though web follows the conventions). One is the server for data and the other is the server for controlling the interchange Passive means what you connect to is the server but you don't act as one as well (can't remember why). Search http://msdn.microsoft.com everything is there. Or Search google
RFC passive ftp
and you'll find the standard that defines it.

 

[Jim Carlock]

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci512897,00.html

Seems to describe it as a firewall circumvention method, where
a client contacts an FTP server and asks for the server to assign
a port.

Whereby "active" FTP is where the client contacts the server,
and the client provides the port number to connect to on the
client side, but if there is a firewall in place, the firewall knows
nothing about the client port and will drop any information that
comes through over port that the client initially tried to use.

I think that is about as simplified explanation of it that can be
mustered.

--
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
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Well I have known in the past. From dim memory with guesses to fill in
blanks. I believe FTP requires both ends to be servers (a server recieves
request/clients initiate things - this is not web talk though web follows
the conventions). One is the server for data and the other is the server for
controlling the interchange Passive means what you connect to is the server
but you don't act as one as well (can't remember why). Search
http://msdn.microsoft.com everything is there. Or Search google
RFC passive ftp
and you'll find the standard that defines it.

 

[Guest]

Basically it's who establishes the port connection for data transfer the server or client. In Active the server actually initiates the secondary FTP connection, obviously this can cause problems with firewalls and the like. In passive the client establishes this secondary connection, and with most firewalls they let in things that they know clients on their protected side have requested thereby bypassing the firewall issue.

CF