FTP freezes on Windows XP only

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www.douglassdavis.com

I am writing again because I can't get an answer.

Sometimes when i try to create or CD into a directory, FTP freezes.
Eventually it will say it timed out. This is with every FTP client.
for example with WS_FTP it says "Receive error, connection aborted."

I have tried passive mode, totally shutting down all firewalls,
shutting down virus protection, and opening all possible ports UDP and
TCP. I tried uninstalling service pack 2 and i think that worked for a
minute, but it's not working now.

I've had the same problem on other XP computers, although not every XP
computer. Sometimes it appears in different ways, for example, i may
not be able to transfer certain files.

When I boot in Linux mode and do FTPs there, everything works fine.
When I installed an FTP server on my own computer to test it out,
everything worked fine. Besides that, the same thing happens w/ every
client and every FTP server i have tried. (So the problem isn't the
client or the server , the hardware, or the network)

The craziest thing is that this only happens from my home computer when
a file name or directory name is 7 chars long. I can't mkdir, cd or
cd into any directory that is 7 chars. It's a very strange problem,
but unique to Windows XP.

Can any one give advice on solving this?
 
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Ben Hetland

www.douglassdavis.com said:
Sometimes when i try to create or CD into a directory, FTP freezes.
Eventually it will say it timed out. This is with every FTP client.
for example with WS_FTP it says "Receive error, connection aborted."

Did you also try the 'wget' client under XP?
 
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www.douglassdavis.com

Ben said:
Did you also try the 'wget' client under XP?


Thanks for responding.

I just tried wget... made it recursive. And that freezes up when
trying to get files whose name is 6 characters long. (which happens
with all FTP clients too).

I get something like this in wget

....
==> PORT ... done. ==> RETR hr.gif ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.

and it keeps retrying.

Another interesting thing. Although I can't cd into a directory that
is 7 characters long (or it will freeze):
cd classes

I can do this using cmd line ftp:
cd ./classes

i believe since wget does cds with the whole path, there is no problem.
for example this works:
CWD /public_html/classes

Another strange error is this (when i try to log in):
421 Too many connections (8) from this IP

so, even though it hangs, and on my end it says it's closing, on their
end it looks like i'm still connected.


Is there anyway that winsock or TCP/IP can be upgraded? According to
WS_FTP I am using Winsock 2.0.


This is one of the strangest problems i have ever seen. I think it was
SP2, because it didn't always do this. any one else have any ideas?
 

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