> i was hoping for something like what i can do with fortunecity and tripod
> before
>
> log in to fortunecity then log in to tripod
>
> i cascade cuteftp with fc and tripod open together. then i drag and drop
> files between them.
>
> i was hoping to do that in our servers.
>
> note: cuteftp has site-to-site features.
>
> what happens now is our servers simulate the sts transfer but later on it
> says port access aborted or something like that.
>
> any ideas?
Ah, now I get what you mean. You want to bounce FTP transfers between 2
sites.
First off, BAD IDEA. That would be a security nightmare since it would
entail forcing or allowing your ftp daemon/server to accept data from a
different source than the controls. FTP uses 2 ports, 20 for data and 21
for controls which normally are from the same source (IP). To bounce the
transfers, your server (ftp1.mydomain.com) would need to accept data from
the other ftp server (ftp2.otherdomain.com) while the controls come in from
your ftp client (cuteftp). On the other side, the server
(ftp2.otherdomain.com) needs to send data to your server (ftp1.mydomain.com)
but gets its controls from your client (cuteftp). Changing the source
address for the data connection is normally done by issuing a PORT command.
Watch cuteftp's command window while it's logging into an ftp server and
you'll see a PORT statement appear. This PORT statement should normally be
followed with the IP address of your machine and the port to use for its end
of the data connection. Tripod and FortuneCity should know this and disable
it. Oh well....
Anyways, if you insist, just configure your ftp server to allow this. The
method of doing it varies from one ftp daemon to another so I guess you have
to look it up in your ftp server's manual pages. I use ProFTPd and this is
done by setting the AllowForeignAddress directive to off.
HTH,
M. Yu
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