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- Started 18 years ago by jluther
- Latest reply 18 years ago from Jim Matthews
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Jim Matthews Administrator
If PASV mode does not work that usually indicates that there's a firewall on the server side that's blocking it. You can test that theory by trying to connect to ftp.fetchsoftworks.com (leave the User ID and Password fields blank); there's no firewall there, so PASV should work.
You could ask the server administrators to enable passive mode. Failing that, you can uncheck PASV in Fetch. But if you do that you have to also make sure that there's no firewall on your side. So you should turn off the OS X firewall in the Sharing panel of System Preferences, and make sure there's no other firewall between your Mac and the Internet.
Thanks,
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks
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Hi,
We have been having problems getting to a few of our FTP site since switching to Panther and the current version of Fetch. (The connections are fine under System 9). I have tried various ways ... turning Passive off in Fetch, turning Passive off in X, turning both off, turning one on, etc. I have also tried many of the Misc preference settings.
With Passive on I receive the following message ...
Can't Open Data Connection
With Passive off I receive this message ...
The Server dropped the connection (it may be too busy)
Here is the transcript with Passive On ...
Fetch 4.0.3 System 0x1036 Serial FETCHFL001-483J-9G2R TR
Connecting to www2.ifbf.org port 21 (12/16/04 11:03:43 AM)
220 maple Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
USER spokesman
331 Password required for spokesman.
PASS
530 User spokesman cannot log in.
Connecting to www2.ifbf.org port 21 (12/16/04 11:04:01 AM)
220 maple Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
USER spokesman
331 Password required for spokesman.
PASS
230 User spokesman logged in.
SYST
215 Windows_NT version 5.0
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
MACB ENABLE
500 'MACB ENABLE': command not understood
SITE DIRSTYLE
200 MSDOS-like directory output is off
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,34,8,15,154).
LIST
425 Can't open data connection.
ftp_list: -30000 (state == GETTING_LIST)
Thanks, Jay
Posted 18 years ago #