Its called passive mode FTP, and it can be done, I just don't remember how.

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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:05 PM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: FTP through firewalls
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have just put my IIS5.0 server behind a firewall and I have 
> given it a
> NATed IP address.  Problem is that if someone is trying to 
> ftp to the ftp
> site on that IIS server THROUGH THEIR OWN FIREWALL with a 
> NATed IP address
> they run into problems.  Basically, they can login but they 
> cannot do a
> folder listing - it just dies.  Apparently UNIX has a means 
> of coping with
> this - since ftp puts the ip address in its packet, UNIX ftps 
> can specifiy
> the actual external IP if necessary - but IIS can't do this.  
> Anyway, has
> anybody ran into this problem before and is it fixable?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
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