23 Apr
2002
23 Apr
'02
17:51
On Tuesday, 23 April 2002 11:48, you wrote:
* Anon. Coward (quantum@ultra2k.com) [020423 09:23]:
In practice, I have never had problems with this when connecting to *nix servers, but always have to take down my firewall when connecting to Winduhs machines.
That's because most (all?) windows ftp clients default to active mode and *nix default to passive. One of the most common complaints that ftpadmin receives is from some windows user who complains that their "firewall" said we were trying break into their machine....it's just them doing active ftp and ftp.suse.com opening a data connection to their machine of course but trying explaining that to them ;)
Thank you. Now it's clear.