Re: Windows XP and FTP

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2006-01-10 koremeltdown () hotmail com wrote:
> I have Windows XP (as do many of my clients) and have noticed
> something strange. When trying to access my server(s) via FTP, when
> Windows (XP Pro) Firewall is turned on, you cannot perform this task.
> Sometimes it has problems resolving the hostname, sometimes it just
> doesn't connect at all. When disabling Windows Firewall FTP works
> fine, however when just enabling FTP Access via the firewall
> configuration it doesn't seem to want to work. My XP using clients
> seem to be having the same problem.

Looks like you (and your clients) are using FTP in active mode. In that
case the FTP server tries to establish the data connection to the client
which is then intercepted by the Windows Firewall. Try using passive
mode.

If you use the commandline FTP client: ftp.exe from Windows does only
support active mode IIRC, so use something like ncftp [1] instead.

[1] http://www.ncftp.com/

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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