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passive ftp problems with Mac 10.4.7 (5 posts)
- Started 17 years ago by Mmagpie
- Latest reply 17 years ago from Mmagpie
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Mmagpie Member
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Scott McGuire Administrator
Hi,
If you can send us the transcript from Fetch on the desktop that's running 10.3.x, and then a transcript from Fetch on the laptop with 10.4 when the firewall is off, we may be able to figure out what you need to change.
Thanks,
Scott McGuire
Fetch Softworks -
Mmagpie Member
Hi, thanks for the response.
Below is the transcript from my desktop computer which I can get to the server from with the firewall on. I do not have the passive ftp checkbox checked in Fetch.
Fetch 5.0.5 (5A835) PowerPC running on Mac OS X 10.3.9 (7W98) PowerPC English
StuffIt Engine 0x702, StuffIt SDK Version StuffIt version 7.0.3
Partial serial FETCH5X001-J48Q-ZY9D T
Connecting to printingpalace.com port 21 (OS X firewall is on) (8/15/06 7:57:46 PM)
Connected to 208.57.19.219 port 21 (8/15/06 7:57:46 PM)
220 ppalace.printingpalace.com FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
USER pp2001
331 Password required for pp2001.
PASS
230 User pp2001 logged in, access restrictions apply.
SYST
215 UNIX Type: L8 Version: BSD-199506
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
MACB ENABLE
500 'MACB ENABLE': command not understood.
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
CWD /
250 CWD command successful.
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
TYPE A
200 Type set to A.
PORT 192,168,1,102,109,220
200 PORT command successful.
LIST
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 2133024**Long list of files here which I have cut . . .**
226 Transfer complete.
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.And this is the transcript from my laptop with firewall off and it looks like I can now get on, but I would like to leave the firewall on if possible, so still would like some help on this. I don't know if it matters, but I am using Airport to get online with the laptop through a router, the desktop computer is hooked up to the same router by ethernet.
Fetch 5.1 (5B286) PowerPC running on Mac OS X 10.4.7 (8J135) PowerPC English
StuffIt Engine 0x820, StuffIt SDK Version 10.1.1b1
Connecting to printingpalace.com port 21 (OS X firewall is off) (8/15/06 8:23:09 PM)
Partial serial FETCH5X001-J48Q-ZY9D T
Connected to 208.57.19.219 port 21 (8/15/06 8:23:09 PM)
220 ppalace.printingpalace.com FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
USER pp2001
331 Password required for pp2001.
PASS
230 User pp2001 logged in, access restrictions apply.
SYST
215 UNIX Type: L8 Version: BSD-199506
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
MACB ENABLE
500 'MACB ENABLE': command not understood.
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
TYPE A
200 Type set to A.
PORT 192,168,1,101,222,95
200 PORT command successful.
LIST
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 2133024**Long list of files here which I have cut . . .**
226 Transfer complete.
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.Originally posted by ScottMcGuire:
Hi,
If you can send us the transcript from Fetch on the desktop that's running 10.3.x, and then a transcript from Fetch on the laptop with 10.4 when the firewall is off, we may be able to figure out what you need to change.
Thanks,
Scott McGuire
Fetch Softworks -
Scott McGuire Administrator
Hi,
Thanks for the transcripts.
Normally, active (non-passive) mode FTP connections do not work through firewalls.
However, in certain setups you could use active mode through the firewall on Mac OS X 10.3. But this was because of bugs in the firewall, and so in Mac OS X 10.4, Apple fixed the bugs and now in 10.4 there is no way to use active (non-passive) mode FTP when the firewall is enabled.
Unfortunately, it looks like the server you're connecting to doesn't support passive mode connections - Fetch 5.1 is trying to open one and the server is rejecting it.
So your only options are:
* Contact the server maintainers and ask them to look into supporting passive mode FTP connections (passive mode has been around a long time, so most servers should support it);
* Turn off the firewall temporarily when you need to connect to this server;
* See if this server supports SFTP connections. SFTP does not have the same passive/active mode issues that FTP does, and should almost always work when a firewall is enabled.Sorry not to have a better answer for you - let us know if you have more questions. Thanks,
Scott McGuire
Fetch Softworks -
Mmagpie Member
Thanks. I was afraid it might be something like that, I will sort it out, but I appreciate the information.
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I have a new computer with Mac Tiger 10.4.7, and cannot ftp to a server I need access to. As far as I can tell I have all settings the same on my desktop computer which runs 10.3.x and I can ftp from there. I've tried turning off the laptop's firewall, clicking on & off the passive checkboxes in system and Fetch preferences, updating to latest version of Fetch, nothing has worked. Fetch tries to load a list of the files on the server and can't do it. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Here is the fetch transcript from my laptop:
Fetch 5.1 (5B286) PowerPC running on Mac OS X 10.4.7 (8J135) PowerPC English
StuffIt Engine 0x820, StuffIt SDK Version 10.1.1b1
Partial serial FETCH5X001-J48Q-ZY9D T
Connecting to printingpalace.com port 21 (OS X firewall is on) (8/15/06 3:09:49 PM)
Connected to 208.57.19.219 port 21 (8/15/06 3:09:49 PM)
220 ppalace.printingpalace.com FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
USER pp2001
331 Password required for pp2001.
PASS
230 User pp2001 logged in, access restrictions apply.
SYST
215 UNIX Type: L8 Version: BSD-199506
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
MACB ENABLE
500 'MACB ENABLE': command not understood.
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
TYPE A
200 Type set to A.
PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,1,216,235,201)
ABOR
225 ABOR command successful.
PORT 192,168,1,102,237,41
200 PORT command successful.
LIST
Active mode connection blocked by OS X firewall, port 60713
ABOR
425 Can't build data connection: Interrupted system call.
225 ABOR command successful.
ftp_list: -30031 (state == GETTING_LIST)
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