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Invalid PORT Command (2 posts)
- Started 14 years ago by haildesign
- Latest reply 14 years ago from Scott McGuire
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haildesign Member
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Scott McGuire Administrator
Hi,
My guess is that you are connecting to the Internet through a wireless connection or a router (a device to share your Internet connection between several different computers), is that correct?
I suspect that the answer is yes, and this is the source of the problem. Due to limitations of how FTP works, you cannot make a successful connection in Active mode to a non-standard port if you are using a device to share your Internet connection with different computers (in technical terms, a NAT device). There are no settings in Fetch you can change to fix this.
In order to connect successfully, you need to either:
* Connect your Mac directly to your cable/DSL modem.
* Convince the server administrator to support passive mode connections, which do not have this problem.Please let us know if you have further questions.
Thanks,
Scott McGuire
Fetch Softworks
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I know there are other posts on this subject, but none have helped. I have been using Fetch for a few years now without an issue. I have just been given details for a server so I can upload a new site to it. I have been told the server is Active and I need to use a specific port Number.
I am on a Mac, using fetch 5.3. I unchecked (and also tried it checked) the PASV checkbox in prefs. I have enabled my firewall to allow connections for Fetch. I have restared fecth a hundred times, but still no luck. I have contacted the server provider and he can access the site via fetch on his mac - without a problem.
Can anyone help - I'm getting desperate.
Here's the Log:
Fetch 5.3 (5D161) Intel running on Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55) Intel English
StuffIt Engine 0x820, StuffIt SDK Version 10.1.1b1
Partial serial FETCH5X001-PJWM-HJHK T
Connecting to www.oceangrovetoylibrary.org.au port 2112 (Mac OS X firewall is limiting connections to specific applications) (21/4/09 10:56:40 AM)
Connected to 203.217.29.29 port 2112 (21/4/09 10:56:40 AM)
220 Microsoft FTP Service
USER oceangrovetoylibrary
331 Password required for oceangrovetoylibrary.
PASS
230 User oceangrovetoylibrary logged in.
SYST
215 Windows_NT
PWD
257 "/oceangrovetoylibrary" is current directory.
MACB ENABLE
500 'MACB ENABLE': command not understood
PWD
257 "/oceangrovetoylibrary" is current directory.
TYPE A
200 Type set to A.
PORT 10,0,1,199,221,124
500 Invalid PORT Command.
PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (10,1,1,5,59,183).
Making data connection to 203.217.29.29 port 15287
ABOR
225 ABOR command successful.
ftp_list: 2,-30000 (state == GETTING_LIST)
Seems like it logs on fine, but hits a problem with the Port connection... The port needs to be 2112.
Posted 14 years ago #