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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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