webcam troubles

[Jon Roed <jroed@shaw.ca>]

i have been fooling around with my webcam trying to get it too work.  I 
managed to get the webcam command to work (sort of) now it starts, but i get 
no picture, and an error that says:

ftp: lost connection
ftp: connect failed, sleeping 5 sec
ftp: lost connection
ftp: connect failed, sleeping 10 sec
ftp: lost connection
ftp: connect failed, sleeping 20 sec

and it just keeps doing that.  I think it's because my ftp port (port 21) is 
closed.  How do i open it ?  or at least allow this traffic