Dear Dan,
There is one thing that I am missing in the gist of this one. That is
how you are trying to get to the machine from another location. If you
type in 192.168.1.7:21 as the address, the machine will not find your
ftp server. You have to type in the ip address that your ISP assigned
to your network such as 208.10.115.xx:21 (this will then make the
machine you are using go out to the internet, find the network, and
then try to connect to port 21. Your router will get the request and do
what it thinks you have told it to do with the request (lose it, pass
it on, etc.). Using the 192.168.xxx address(es) is only good for the
local network -- these have been agreed by all to be used only for LANs
rather than for the WAN.
I have used a similar set-up to what you have with 10.0 and 10.1 in the
past to do this. However, I have not used 10.2 with it yet as I moved
before .2 came out and ended up going to a different set-up. But if I
am not mistaken, when you turn on 10.2's firewall, it says something
about enabling passive ftp mode via the proxies tab in Network Prefs.
Jerry
On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 09:52 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
> In response to several suggestions about FTP sharing:
>
> >You may want to try changing the default router IP address to
> something somewhat unique.
>
> I'm not sure if I understand this. The router is using DHCP, so it
> picks up its IP from the ISP; I don't have any control over that. If
> you're referring to the LAN IP that I assign my computer, I am using a
> unique IP for that. The router is set up to start assigning IPs at
> 192.168.1.100; I have manually assigned mine an IP of 192.168.1.7 (and
> I've also tried .17 and .149 and a couple of others), which no other
> computer on the network can have.
>
> > I usually use scp these
> >days because I'm paranoid about sending unencrypted passwords out into
> >the world. Mac OS X comes with scp installed, and it works great.
>
> Praytell, what is scp and where do I find it? Is this something that's
> going to require me finally to tackle the terminal?
>
> >You need to set up your Linksys router to put your laptop in the DMZ
>
> I have tried DMZ and port forwarding without success. The inability to
> connect seems to be at an earlier stage in the process. It's as if the
> ftp request is never getting past (or to) the router's IP address, if
> that makes any sense.
>
> As for several suggestions to try a different ftp client, that will be
> my next step in the troubleshooting process.
>
> By the way, is there anyone out there who actually has OS X's built-in
> FTP sharing working on a computer that's behind a cable/DSL router,
> regardless of brand?
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions. We have only begun to fight.
>
> Dan
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