On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Morbus Iff wrote:
> If you disable the firewall, I'm presuming they'll work?
>
> I don't remember the exact variable, but I *think* that adding
> PASSIVE_FTP=1 to your shell's startup should fix things up.
That's the old fix, and it probably still works, but you should be able
to get the same results in the OS itself now.
Quoting from the Firewall sub-panel of the Sharing panel in System
Preferences...
To use FTP to retrieve files while the firewall is on, enable
passive FTP mode using the Proxies tab in Network Preferences.
If you go into the Network panel and show your main interface, then
click on the Proxies tab, there will be a prominent checkbox:
[ ] Use Passive FTP Mode (PASV)
Checking that should be equivalent to the old $PASSIVE_FTP variable, but
should apply to all programs, graphical, command line, or self-made.
--
Chris Devers
