Re: [cobalt-users] Re: FTP Aborts & Errors...

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay Summers wrote:

> What ftp client are you using? I used to have the same problem with WS-FTP
> for windoze and Dreamweaver for Macintosh. I think it had something to do
> with our DSL router and NAT. Anyway, the way I fixed it was to click the
> "Passive Transfers" box in WS-FTP. You might want to take a look in your ftp
> client for a similar option.

It's more likely what your firewall is doing than anything with your
desktop or your server.  Using "Winproxy" as our proxying firewall, we
had to set for passive transfers.  I imagine a lot of firewalls require
it.  It should be in your firewall documentation; it was in ours.

Jeff
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