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Re: [gftp] Problem with gftp



Go to FTP->Preferences->FTP and disable Passive File Transfers. That
should fix the problem.

Brian


On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Bret Busby <bret@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I hope that this is the correct way to post to this list (the mailing list
> administration messages did not include that information), and I hope that
> this is the correct way to ask about problems using gftp.
>
> I have a number of web sites, and I have previously used gftp to upload
> files to my web sites, without any significant problems that I remember.
>
> I am currently using gFTP 2.0.18 running on Denian 4.0 Linux.
>
> In trying to access two of my web sites, today, using gftp, I got the
> following response:
>
> "
> 230 User xxxxxxxx logged in.
> SYST
>
> 215 UNIX Type: L8
> TYPE I
>
> 200 Type set to I
> PWD
>
> 257 "/" is current directory.
> Loading directory listing / from server (LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8)
> PASV
>
> 227 Entering Passive Mode (203,113,228,30,224,10).
> Cannot create a data connection: Connection refused
> Disconnecting from site
> "
>
> I have contacted the ISP that hosts the web sites, and that ISP could not
> find anything in the logs, and, restarted the ftp daemon, but the problem
> continued.
>
> I used the ftp comand line utility, and that worked without any problem, and
> I was able to upload the particular files that I sought to upload to one of
> my web sites.
>
> I do not know where the problem lies; whether it is within gftp (which would
> surprise me, as I do not remember having any problems in using gftp, in the
> past), at the ISP, or with the ISP that provides us with Internet access,
> or, with Debian Linux.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this prolem, and, does a known solution, exist?
>
> Thank you in anticiaption.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>  you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>  written by Douglas Adams,
>  published by Pan Books, 1992
>
> ....................................................
>