> Exactly for this kind of reason I did not disabled willingly the passive > ftp (unless for some weird cause it's trying to negotiate a port below 1023).
Fact is that the ftp connection is broken while trying to open a data channel. ftp ls uses a data channel, like get and put. I have only ever seen this problem when there was something wrong with passive/active. Check both passive and active are enabled on the client. Check your firewall doesn't block active. Check whatever, as long as you fix the opening of the data channel. An ftp client which can be forced to use either passive or active is useful to establish whether the fault is with the server (or along the way). Volker
