From: Phil Burness Organization: Home Reply-To: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:59:06 +0100 To: Subject: Re: [SLE] Strange ftp problem

On Friday 14 October 2005 17:49, James Wright wrote:

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Phil Burness wrote:

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Something is blocking my ftp from the suse box out through the XP box. I've had a look around the XP machine and I have disabled the windows firewall on the internet interface but can see no other obvious reason why I can't can't connect.

BTW - Mail works through the XP box as well :-)

Any help or advice appreciated.

Thanks Phil

Phil, I do not have two network interfaces on my XP Pro, but I believe that the Windows Firewall is active on each NIC with it's own settings for each. If you go into your network connections window, click on the local NIC (Not the Internet NIC) and in the taskpane on the left you will see "Change Windows Firewall Settings". Entirely disable this. Remember that Window's Firewall blocks incoming requests only, so if you are getting a Refused Connection or similar error going through an XP box, it is most likely the firewall on the NIC that you are trying to connect to. Good luck.

James W James, Thanks for the help. I've looked at both interfaces and the firewall is off on both of them. Still got the same problem though.

Phil

Try this: - make an ftp connection from the command line. - Before doing anything else, type "EPSV4 off" See if that helps...