Re: [RndTbl] FTP problems

Mike Pfaiffer wrote:

    I gather the trend in ftp servers is to use something called passive mode

(I have no idea what the difference is). Some of the older programs do not support it transparently. I've connected successfully with gftp.

                            Later
                            Mike

Before passive mode the server would connect to the client to transfer data. If the client was behind a firewall then the connection request would usually be blocked. In passive mode the client does the connection and the server uses this connection to do the data transfer.

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