The reason for this is because many firewalls do not allow incoming
connections to the site, but do
allow users to establish outgoing connections. A passive data connection is
established by the client
to the server, whereas the default is for the server to establish the
connection to the client, which
firewalls may object to. Of course, you now may have problems with sites
whose primitive FTP servers
do not support passive mode.
Martin,
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| (also known as the Good, the bad and the
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel de los Reyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 5:14 PM
To: Martin Marconcini
Cc: Lista de Debian-User
Subject: What is Passive mode anyway?
Can somebody explain what Passive mode is, so maybe I can understand my way
out of this?
El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:09:42PM -0300, Martin Marconcini dijo:
-| 1) Indeed you can't do it on Internet Explorer as far as I know.
-| 2) I believe that no matter which client you will be using, if you wish
to
-| use an ftp server and pass through a firewall, you will have to enable
-| passive mode on every client.
-|
-| Best Regards,
-|
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-| Martin Marconcini | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ...
-| | (also known as the Good, the bad and the
-| | ugly..)
-|
-| -----Original Message-----
-| From: Daniel de los Reyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-| Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 5:07 PM
-| To: Martin Marconcini
-| Cc: Lista de Debian-User
-| Subject: Re: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!
-|
-|
-| El Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:39:02PM -0300, Martin Marconcini dijo:
-| -| You probably need to enable PASSIVE Mode on the Windows FTP CLient.
-| -|
-| -| That will make it.
-| -|
-|
-| 1. I can't find a way to do this in Internet Explorer.
-| 2. Isn't there any other way? I can't tell everybody to enable PASSIVE
-| mode...
-|
-|
-|
-|
-| -| Regards,
-| -|
-| -| --
-| -| Martin Marconcini | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ...
-| -| | (also known as the Good, the bad and the
-| -| | ugly..)
-| -|
-| -|
-| -|
-| -| -----Original Message-----
-| -| From: Daniel de los Reyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-| -| Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 4:11 PM
-| -| To: Lista de Debian-User
-| -| Subject: ProFTP server not serving win clients!!
-| -|
-| -|
-| -| I have set a ProFTP server running on port 2100. It is perfectly
-| accesible
-| -| from any Linux ftp client, even from browsers as Mozilla or Konqueror.
-| -| The strange thing is that it can be accesed from clients running on
-| windoze.
-| -| Thy get the error:
-| -|
-| -| An error hapened when openning the folder in the FTP server.Check your
-| -| access permissions to this folder.
-| -| Details:
-| -| 200 Type set to A
-| -| 500 Illegal PORT Command
-| -|
-| -| What is all this about?
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