FTP from masq'd machine

[Mark]

I had the same problem for a while.  I simply set my FTP client on my
Windows box (ws_fte le) to use passive mode transfers for all my sessions.
Bingo it was fixed.  Good luck.

Mark Tolman
Grant Thornton.

At 09:56 AM 4/7/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
>Tim Riley wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
>
> TR> I have a windows machine that's masqueraded under my linux
> TR> box.  When trying to ftp on the windows machine, it often
> TR> hangs on the 'ls' command on many sites.  Does anyone know
> TR> what causes this?  I have the ip_masq_ftp module loaded.
>
>If it works on some sites and not on others, my best guess is that the site is
>trying to do something that does not work through masquerade, such as an
"auth"
>query (which is answered by "identd").  Technically, a directory listing
by FTP
>is just a file transfer like any other, except that the file is generated on
>the fly by the FTP server and displayed to the FTP client user rather than
>stored on disk.  Does "get" work where "ls" or "dir" does not?
> 
>-- Mike
>
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