Hey Old friend! I've seen the light!! and now do not own anything that is dependent on Microsoft.
Allen On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 03:10 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > >You should really look at the free services at www.DynDNS.org so you > >don't have to keep track of the dynamic WAN IP. I've been using DynDNS > >for a couple of years, and it works great. > > I use DynDNS at my office and probably will use it at home as well > once I get the FTP sharing to work. But first I want to make sure that > I can get the FTP sharing to work. I know that my home IP address > hasn't changed for at least several days, so I'm sure that's not the > cause of my failure to connect. > > >Check the Anarchie settings and change away from passive ftp, if it's > >set that way. > > The only setting I could find regarding passive ftp was one in > Internet Config (the computer I'm trying to log in from is using OS > 9). I unchecked the "Use passive FTP" box. It didn't make any > difference. > > >I don't use Anarchie, but your setup is almost exactly the same one > >that works for me. The major difference is that I'm using a NetGear > >router. Both ftp (port 21) and Appleshare/IP (port 548) work fine from > >outside. > > I have some familiarity with configuring ports, as I have several > office computers set up so I can control them remotely using Timbuktu, > and the office LAN uses the same Linksys router as the one at home. > Which is why I'm surprised I'm not able to get the FTP sharing to > work. It seems like there is some other setting on the router that I > need to change so that it will let the FTP connection go through. > > On a related note, I see that the OS X Network preference panel has as > one of its configurations "Using DHCP with manual IP address," which > sounds exactly like what I'm trying to do. But if I use that > configuration I lose my internet connection. I can't find any > documentation on that setting. Do you know what it's for and how to > use it? > > As it is, I'm configuring TCP/IP manually. > > Dan > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2114 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021201/171a5cee/attachment.bin
