FTP and cross platform issues...

Dave Cragg dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Fri Mar 24 15:01:47 EST 2006


On 23 Mar 2006, at 00:31, John Patten wrote:

> Hello All...
>
> I searched the archives and could not come up with a solution to an  
> FTP problem I'm having.
>
> I have an OSX Tiger Server configured for FTP. Everything works  
> like it supposed to with both Fetch (Mac side) and FTP Commander on  
> the WinXP side. No problem.
>
> However, I've been trying to get the WindowsXP box and Rev to  
> upload a simple text file to the server. No success. I have tried  
> Andre FTP utility, a couple others from the member area, my own  
> hacks using the examples in the rev docs, and finally Chip's FTPer  
> utility. None of them would work. The best I could see was that I  
> was getting a time out error.

I know there has been some discussion about passive/active/firewall  
issues, but I wonder if something else isn't amiss. On my own local  
network, with Win XP firewall on, I can upload to an OS X Tiger ftp  
server without problems. I've had the XP firewall on since the SP2  
release and have had no problems. I just reset the XP firewall  
settings to "restore default settings" and still have no problems,  
using both active and passive. (It seems to have upset my smb  
connection though. :-( )

FTP severs will generally handle both passive and active requests,  
unless specifically set otherwise. The problems over passive/active  
generally occur at routers/firewalls between the client and server.

Some questions: (apologies if they have been answered already)

Is the server on the local network or on the internet?

Is the "OSX Tiger Server" running OS X Server or just plain OS X? (I  
think they deploy different FTP servers, in case that's relevant.) In  
my case, it's plain OS X.

Are you running any other "internet security" software on either the  
client or server machine?

Can you get some log data using libUrlSetLogField in the client? This  
might help pin down where the problem is occurring?

What version of Rev and libUrl are you using? ("put libUrlVersion()"  
in the message box will give you the libUrl version.)

Cheers
Dave



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