Stewart Good guess. I assume so from the message it give before it freezes....
(It says "entering passive mode"...) (seberino /home/seberino) % ftp -p www.pythonsoft.com Connected to pythonsoft.com. 220-FTP Server Ready. 220-Guest logins are not allowed here. You must login with your assigned 220-username and password with your FTP client program. If you're using 220-Internet Explorer, try the "Login as..." menu option under the "File" menu, 220-or in other FTP client programs, you can try this URL: 220- 220- ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ 220 Name (www.pythonsoft.com:seberino): seberino 331 User seberino okay, need password. Password: 230 Restricted user logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (64,202,163,153,147,47) On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:46:42PM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:36:41PM -0800: > > I am able to connect to a remote ftp server through my firewall with > > passive ftp but I can't do any commands like ls or dir without > > firewall problems. > > > > If I turn off firewall then ftp commands work great. > > > > What else does passive ftp (ftp -p) require to be opened up? > > None that I'm aware of. > > Does the remote server support PASV mode? That's the likely culprit. > > -- > _ |\_ > \| > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-0804 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
