On 9/23/13 7:35 AM, Chase, John wrote:
I don't know.... It is not I trying to upload, but a colleague working remotely.
That's a pretty interesting clue; maybe the "425 Failed to establish connection" error has nothing at all to do with your end of the connection. In an earlier post you (or the individual reporting the problem) provided the following transcript of an FTP session:
On 9/20/13 11:36 AM, Chase, John wrote:
===== Begin paste ===== 230 Login successful. ftp> bin 200 Switching to Binary mode. ftp> put vmcf2r11.tar 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 425 Failed to establish connection. ===== End paste =====
Note the message "Consider using PASV": that means the upload is attempting to use an /active/ FTP connection for the data transfer. And that means your FTP server is trying to initiate a TCP connection /back/ to the client. Is the remote user working from home? If they have a home network that person probably has a router that's blocking all incoming connections from the outside world. If a VPN is involved, I guess it's possible that security/firewall software on their PC could still be blocking incoming connections. Or possibly their ISP has a block on incoming connections. It would be very helpful to know more details about how the remote user is connection to your system. Also, do they get the same 425 error if they do a "dir" command? And have they tried passive FTP if it's available on their client? Eric Chevalier ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
