ftp question

[praematurus]

I've been having problems connecting to a friends ftp host. I've got an SMC barricade router and I keep the firewall up. I'm running Windows 2000. He's set up the ftp port to 8021 instead of the standard port 21 for his own security reasons. When I try to connect to it, I get an invalid port error. Any suggestions on the router settings I should use to make this work? (I've tried connecting with the DMZ host enable, but still no go.) I'm puzzled.

 

[helpme]

Wait, you are behind the firewall (router) or is he?

 

[praematurus]

Actually, both of us are, but he has that port opened up and it doesn't make any difference if I enable DMZ or not.

 

[Kadarin]

Check your ftp client software and disable passive mode. If passive mode is already disabled, enable it. That should do the trick, unless you have a really funky firewall.

If you're using a browser as your ftp client, don't. Use ws-ftp or some equivalent.

-j

 

[TwoFace]

What Astaroth33 said, just a slight change in recommended ftp client... try smartftp, free, upgrades quite often and a feature set that can dazzle the most spoiled of internet users 😉

TF