Re: Windows XP and FTP

["Hamish Stanaway" <koremeltdown () hotmail com>]

Hi there Colin,

Thank you for your suggestion - I have tried this, and unfortunately opening 
ports 20 & 21 on the firewall as an exception does not seem to make a 
difference, even after a restart of both the connection and the client 
machine itself.



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> From: Colin Bean <ccbean () gmail com>
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> Subject: Re: Windows XP and FTP
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> Have you tried opening the FTP-related ports in the XP firewall (I beleive
> that FTP needs port 21 and 20, one for control and one for data transfer)?
> In the "add port" window, you can use "change scope" to limit connections 
> to
> your IP only, which should make the setup reasonably secure (besides the
> fact that you're using FTP ;) )  Don't think this will help much with the
> domain name issues, but it might help with the actual transfer.
>
> hth,
> -Colin
>
> On 1/10/06, Mark Owen <mr.markowen () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10 Jan 2006 01:10:58 -0000, koremeltdown () hotmail com
> >
> > **snip**
> > > I could ask all of my XP using clients to just disable their XP 
> Firewall
> > when uploading their websites via FTP, but I don't think the more savvy
> > customers would appreciate doing that (they are smart enough to realise 
> what
> > it means to disable a firewall on todays internet).
> > > My question to the list is, does anyone know how to correctly 
> configure
> > XP Firewall to get around this issue, or is disabling the firewall the 
> only
> > way? I would like to include this in my FAQ, so the easier workthrough 
> the
> > better.
> >
> > Does not resolve?  Well, I don't have a XP machine in front of me but
> > you can goto the advanced section for the firewall settings and add
> > your FTP client to an exception list.  Or, in the same spot you can
> > tell it to allow FTP to go through.  I haven't had this kind of
> > problem before but this may fix it.
> >
> > Generally,  when one of our users have a FTP/Firewall issue, and they
> > are using explorer as their FTP client, I have them enable Passive FTP
> > by going to "Internet Options" - "Advanced" - and check "Use Passive
> > FTP.." or likewise in what ever FTP client they may be using.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Owen
> >
> >
> > 
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