Re: proftp. Accessing an FTP server
Hi-
Sounds like your corporate firewall is not letting the data channel
traffic through. FTP uses both 21 and 20 to communicate...
Kevin
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 00:57, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> I've got proftp running and it works great, in fact perfect inside our
> company LAN. So, I thought everything was perfect. HA!
>
> Outside in the real world, I am able (through a terminal session) to
> ftp in (login and password checked) but I can't do anything.
> Here as an example is what happens inside the LAN when I issue the
> command "ls"
>
> Remote system type is UNIX.
> Using binary mode to transfer files.
> ftp> ls
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
> -rwxrwxr-- 1 536 540 13824 Sep 4 22:15 Test.xls
> drwx------ 2 0 daemon 4096 Aug 27 20:07 bin
> drwx------ 2 0 daemon 4096 Aug 27 20:03 etc
> 226-Transfer complete.
> 226 Quotas off
>
>
> However, outside the LAN I get the following errors:
>
> Remote system type is UNIX.
> Using binary mode to transfer files.
> ftp> ls
> 500 EPSV not understood.
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,0,1,11,18,205).
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> BTW, trying to use a web browser for ftp outside the LAN, just times
> out.
>
> Curtis
>
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