[Xitami] ftp issues(I'm Stumped)

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I would recommend your friend dumps the XP firewall and installs Zonealarm 
instead.
Zonealarm claims it's not made for servers but in fact it works just fine.
It is on top of that a build of outpost for linux somehow as it reports 
itself to be the same.

Now, for the configuration, go into Advanced and allow odd servers to run 
under high security,
and then specify that port 80 and other standard access rights are ok. Then 
you should be set.

XP's firewall has little to no ability to specify any distinct settings and 
if it's only SP 1 then it's pretty much not worth anything anyway.
I had a few guys compare security on firewalls and it took them about 10 
minutes to get through all standard Windows firewalls but a NAT is 
something different.
It can be broken but will take them 4 - 6 hours and is so much easier to 
detect.



At 10:20 PM 11/20/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>I recently helped a friend install Xitami 2.5c2 on a pc running XP. 
>Everything was working perfectly until yesterday. Users trying to connect 
>to his ftp service are presented with this error:
>
>Connecting to 83.70.231.6:21
>Connected to 83.70.231.6:21 in 0.170244 seconds, Waiting for Server Response
>
>Failed to receive response after connect
>Host type (1): Automatic Detect
>
>I double checked his network and router configuration. Everything is ok 
>there. He can access the http and ftp servers locally. It's just access 
>from the net that is receiving the error. After prodding him a little 
>further it turns out he enabled XP's built in firewall(not sure why he did 
>this, his router uses NAT) right before his server went south. Ah, hah, I 
>figured, easy fix. He insists on keeping his firewall enabled, so I had 
>him configure it
>to allow HTTP an FTP to no avail. After that failed I had him disable the 
>firewall, still nothing. Users are still receiving the same error. I was 
>positive XP's firewall was the issue. Does anyone know what could be 
>causing this. I've been using xitami for four years on my own machine, but 
>in no way claim to be an expert. I'm stumped.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>
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