[Xitami] FTP

[Vance Forste]

Doh is right...
I was not even thinking about that.... I just realized that was the fix and
went on with my business  (I have no use for it...)
Yes it would be a prompt from a Win2K box ....Well in short the defnition of
passive mode is quite simply telling the server that the client will attempt
to establish the file transfer port. It is a server and client command. The
reason passive mode is not working is your firewall is blocking the incoming
port from the client.....
I have to retract my statement earlier Xitami does support passive mode....
Vance

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] FTP


> In message <006701c1a9f5$d41f3060$6401a8c0@vance> "Vance Forste" writes:
>
> > Actually the documentaion does claim to support passive mode but I have
> > tried it on a few versions and none of them work using passive mode...
As a
> > matter of fact I get an Invalid command response from it....
> >
> > <clip>
> > ftp> PASV
> > Invalid command.
> > </clip>
> > Go figure...
>
> Doh!
>
> PASV (and all those other "four-letter" commands, like USER) are the
> commands used over the sockets connection between the FTP client and the
> FTP server.  Few FTP clients will accept such commands at their user CLI.
> These commands are what actually /constitute/ the protocol itself.
>
> Some FTP clients will recognize a QUOTE command, which can push a
> complete File Transfer Protocol (guess why I wrote that in full) command
> over to the server for execution.
>
> Anyway, the long and short of it is that to take advantage of an FTP
> server, like Xitami, which supports "passive FTP" requires that you have
> a client that utilizes passive FTP.
>
> I don't know, for instance, whether the command-line client included in
> Windoze uses it: that code (as can be seen by extracting the Copyright
> string from the executable) is based upon old BSD code of 1983 vintage.
> Is that what you were using above, generating the "ftp> " prompt?
>
> --
> Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
bhk@dsl.co.uk
>     "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one
of
>     distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being
incr-
>     easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT
Labs
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