[OT] Playing silly bu**ers with FileZilla.

[Warren Samples]

On 05/17/2013 11:54 AM, Richmond wrote:
> Hey-Ho You Happy Linux Mages,
>
> I have been merrily connecting to my FTP/Web-page site (a subset of
> Andre Garzia's site, God Bless him) using
> a Macintosh FTP client for about 3-4 years (Cyberduck) which set things
> up "licketty-split" [for those of you
> who don't know that is a technical term] . . .
>
> . . . all jolly well and good, until I want to do the same from Linux . . .
>
> Now 'FileZilla' gets all "hot and sweaty" [see earlier remark about
> technical terms] and tells me all sorts of funny
> things about Firewalls and a mismatch with my external IP address . . .
>
> . . .  why this is, I just don't know as I have been happily using
> Cyberduck inside Mac OS 10.6 inside VMware Player 5.0.2
> on Linux without all this cafuffle . . .
>
> Anyway, FileZilla won't play . . . unless, as usual, I am missing
> something.
>
> Richmond.
>


I can't know what's causing your problem, but I have never had any 
trouble getting FileZilla to work here under Linux. Did you try running 
the network wizard? You'll find it under the "Edit" menu. Maybe enabling 
passive will help.


Good luck!

Warren