Thanks for the help. I think that I will get around the issue by having my host enable ssh access for my site so that I can scp the files to it. This is the first time that I've actually encountered this sort of problem, so I thought that I would see if anyone had had similar problems. --Brandon
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Donald J Bindner wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:39:14AM -0500, Peter Snoblin wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I just ftp'd into jessica-chapman.com and logged in as anonymous and > > was able to pull a directory listing (just one folder, incoming) in > > both windows and linux. Based off that, I'd hazard a guess to say the > > problem is on your end. I'd again hazard a guess that if you are > > running a firewall you could be blocking a needed port, but I have no > > idea what that could be (I think active ftp uses 20 for something...). > > Sorry I couldn't be of more help. > > > > Peter Snoblin > > You never can tell about these things. One person might be using > regular (active?) connections and another passive. I couldn't > say with authority that the firewall would treat each > identically. > > It sounds like you are connecting to port 21(ftp) correctly. But > ftp uses a second connection for data transfer and the way that > is set up differs for passive ftp connections. It's possible > that your second connection is getting blocked. > >
