Fetch Softworks

Novell firewall (6 posts)

• Started 21 years ago by dunno
• Latest reply 21 years ago from Jim Matthews

• dunno Member

  In a Mac-unfriendly environment I am trying to find an ftp client that can get through the Novell firewall. On the Windows side, WS_FTP goes through beautifully, configured with a Host type of "Automatic detect" and a firewall type of "USER with no logon".

  Fetch is the only Mac ftp client that I can find that allows setting the firewall type, but to no avail. After a longish delay with a frozen fetchdog, I get a popup window that says "The connection was reset by server." The transcript window shows the following:
  - - - - - - -
  System Version = 0x1012
  Using USER with no logon (aka USER user@host) proxy server host:<proxy address here>, port:21, userid:<novell id here>
  Connecting to <proxy address here> port 21 (2/26/02 1:56:14 PM)
  220 Service Ready
  USER anonymous@mirrors.aol.com
  get_reply():con_conn->Getline() returns -3253
  - - - - - - -
  It looks like Fetch logs in successfully to the proxy server, but then gets jammed. No matter what ftp host is attempted, the "get_reply" line is the same.

  Any help would be much appreciated.

  Posted 21 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Do you see the same problem running Fetch under Mac OS 9.x (or under Classic)?

  I'd be curious to see a transcript of a WS_FTP session through the firewall, for comparison's sake.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 21 years ago #

• dunno Member

  Here's what WS-FP shows me; "192..." is the Novell Border Manager Proxy address:

  connecting to 192.168.110.8:21
  Connected to 192.168.110.8 port 21
  220 Service Ready
  USER mta@<domain>
  331 Password required for mta.
  PASS (hidden)
  230 User mta logged in.
  CWD /Ipswitch/Product_Downloads
  550 /Ipswitch/Product_Downloads: No such file or directory.
  PWD
  257 "/home/mta" is current directory.
  SYST
  215 UNIX Type: L8 Version: BSD-199506
  Host type (S): UNIX (standard)
  PASV
  227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,110,8,190,231)
  connecting to 192.168.110.8:48871
  - -
  connecting to 192.168.110.8:48871
  Connected to 192.168.110.8 port 48871
  LIST
  150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
  Received 105 bytes in 0.1 secs, (9545.45 bps), transfer succeeded
  226 Transfer complete.

  [This message has been edited by dunno (edited 02-28-2002).]

  Posted 21 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Thanks for the transcript; that's helpful.

  Have you tried connecting to mirrors.aol.com (as user "anonymous") with WS_FTP? And have you tried connecting with Fetch from Mac OS 9 or Classic?

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 21 years ago #

• dunno Member

  Going to mirrors.aol.com, I get the same exact transcript results as before:

  Fetch:
  220 Service Ready
  USER anonymous@mirrors.aol.com
  get_reply():con_conn->Getline() returns -3253

  WS_FTP:
  220 Service Ready
  USER anonymous@mirrors.aol.com
  331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
  PASS (hidden)
  230-Welcome to AOL's FTP mirror site!
  <clip>

  And it's exactly the same in OS 9, Fetch 4.0.1.

  Thanks for your continuing help on this!

  Posted 21 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  That's very puzzling. One more thing to try is Fetch 3.0.3 on Mac OS 9 (USER with no logon is the only sort of proxy supported by Fetch 3.0.3.

  I wish I had an easy way of reproducing this so that I could see exactly what is going wrong.

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 21 years ago #