FTP

[Gott]

I have no problem accessing FTP sites from the command line in Windows XP
and did not to have any problems previously accessing FTP sites using
Internet Explorer but now since about six weeks ago no matter what I try all
I get from IE when I try to access an FTP site is an IE screen message that
says: "...IE can not display the webpage." What is going on and how can I
restore FTP access under IE?

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem. But, mine started as soon as I "upgraded" to IE7. I
have no access to the FTP sites that I need to get to. I have tried the
Uncheck the passive mode box and the FTP view folder box and still no
connection. All I get is - Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
Most likely causes:
You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address

None of this is true. I can easily connect from a machine running IE6. What
needs changed?

 

[Gott]

This reminds me of GE and the 1 year light bulb (1 to 3 months unless there
is a power surge) and the wireless mouse (screen and cursor move at random
causing extremely serious problems if logged into sites like your bank
account)... Microsoft must have allowed its newcomers to work on IE7 and
Windows Media Player v11 which even Wal-Mart recommends customers dump and
use v10 instead. It appears that the problem is that since none of these
newcomers use FTP they are trying to phase it out by simply not supporting
it in the new version although the checkboxes are still there and there is
not notice this is the case. Else Microsoft executive must be allowing their
own incompetent kids to play around with grownup stuff.

 

[Guest]

Gott,

Go to Windows XP Basics - search for FTP - Thread called "FTP with IE7 is
grrrrrreat"

Step by step instructions on getting it to run in IE7. Sharp pain in the @$$
but I got mine to work. Might help you problem.

Lloyd

 

[Gott]

Doesn't work for me... just switches from IE 7 to Windows Explorer in place
of using IE 6. Even IE 6 no longer works due perhaps to update files that
accompanied IE 7. No wonder people keep telling me that if I want things my
way to move to Linux or to remain with Microsoft if I want things
Microsoft's way.

 

[Guest]

Is there a conspiracy here?

A friend approached me the other day and said he could no longer upload to
his site. When I checked my desktop computer, I discovered that I could not
use FTP either. I then checked my laptop, same issue. IE7 or command prompt
both dead.

I have looked around and seen this issue online many places since last year.

Has anyone found a solution to the FTP problem?

I know it worked a few months back for me. The only thing common between my
two computers is IE7, Windows updates! (and router) but as mentioned above I
know it was working a few months back.

What gives?

KLHNet

 

[Gott]

My guess is an all to common methodology of putting upgrade on the market
and waiting for sufficient feedback before tackling the problem. Even Cities
do this with pot holes and putting up new lights. Notice the ONLY Microsoft
FTP newsgroup is Microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.ftp. FTP is not fully
supported by Microsoft no different than facsimile transmission, contrary to
the appearance of certain screens and menu items and popular belief.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Has anyone found a solution to the FTP problem?

I know it worked a few months back for me. The only thing common between my
two computers is IE7, Windows updates! (and router) but as mentioned above I
know it was working a few months back.

My guess is that the "and router" part is what's causing you grief.
You probably need to switch your FTP client to use passive mode.
Unfortunately the built-in command-line FTP client doesn't know
anything about passive mode. I'm quite sure there's a setting in IE7
someplace, but I don't know where. And I know you can find dedicated
FTP clients via Google that will handle this.

FTP normally uses "active mode". When you ask for a file to be
transferred, or even for a directory listing to be sent to you, the
server asks your computer for a port that it can be contacted on. The
server then opens a connection to that port, sends the file, and
closes the connection. So your client knows exactly when all the data
has been transmitted, and the command connection still exists, ready
to handle more commands.

If you have a NAT (Network Address Translation) router controlling
your home network - and pretty well all home routers do that, that's
how they share a single Internet connection among multiple computers -
this won't work. The router won't know what to do with the incoming
connection request from the server, and will ignore it. This behavior
protects your net from *lots* of Internet -transmitted grief.

In passive mode, the client asks the server for a port. The client
then opens a connection to the server on that port. The router
understands this, and has no problem with it. And your FTP connection
works.

 

[Guest]

I must tend to agree. I have pretty much verified that the problem is one of
the updates I must have done over the last three or four months, (just do not
know which).

KLHNet

 

[Guest]

Thanks Tim for the information.

I bypassed the router last night and verified that “IE7" & command prompt
did not work.

Before I posted my first message I verified that passive and active did not
work.

I used to use WS_FTP before I started using Windows XP. I think I should try
something like that.

If you see any fixes for this “Windows XP†problem, please do not hesitate
to post here.

KLHNet

 

[Gott]

The issue here is not that FTP can not be accessed via command line FTP or
previously via IE6 even through a NAT router. The issue is that there has
been an Windows or a Microsoft update which prevents FTP access regardless
of whether you select or deselect passive checkbox or use folders for FTP
checkbox. This IE7 update, whatever it is, has also now effected IE6 so it
does no good to do an IE rollback. Using a third party FTP browser is
suspect because all of them entail an eventual cost. This is the suspicious
part of whatever is going on - perhaps a MIP paving the way to make money by
selling a browser for FTP or helping a friend to do this.

 

[Guest]

I think I found my problem.

I use McAfee personal firewall 6.1.6144. Before all the updates, the windows
firewall was disabled. Somehow it was re-enabled. Now everything woks great
with the windows firewall disabled! Don't you wish that when someone changes
you windows default settings, they should let someone know? Like the
user/owner of the hardware/software.

Let us all stop and pay $$$$ ......