On 22 Jan 2010 at 12:28, Neil Johnston wrote: > I'm having problems with several users using different ftp programs, they > cannot connect to ftp websites because their session timesout before > connecting, or sometimes they connect and only see some of the folders on > the ftp site. > > My personal issue is with Dreamweaver, it just never uploads files, it used > to work. I have to use core ftp lite which is the only solution that > consistently works for me, however other users cannot connect to the same > ftp site with the same software. > > We have a firewall that is standard setup, disallow all incoming except > replies to connections initiated on the inside of the firewall. I cannot > think of anything else that would cause this issue.
You would have to open the standard FTP port (20? 21?) through the firewall to the FTP server for someone to connect from outside. Passive=mode FTP should then work fine. It's active-mode FTP that doesn't like this. > I don't know if this is the best forum to post this issue but I thought to > give it a try. Any and all suggestions are appreciated to what I can look > into to fix this. Don't use FTP, it's not secure. Use SCP (WinSCP) instead. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +-----------------------------------+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
