monalisa Posted August 16, 2003 Posted August 16, 2003 Hi guys. I was hoping someone could help me out here. I created an ftp account for my site and was even able to log into it. However, I cannot run the DIR command from the ftp command line utility. Nor can I upload any file (using explorer or the command line utility) . It just says "200 port command successful" followed by a delay.. and then "Aborting any active data connections..." In explorer it just sits there for a while and pretends like I never told it to do anything! What am I doing wrong? I tried creating sub directories with the name of the user but that didn't seem to fix the problem. I really need to get this ftp working soon for a customer. So I'd really appreciate your help! Thanks! Quote
TCH-Andy Posted August 16, 2003 Posted August 16, 2003 Hi, What FTP program are you using? or just a windows command line? One of the things I often find helps is to change to passive FTP in whatever package you are using. Andy Quote
TCH-Rick Posted August 16, 2003 Posted August 16, 2003 IE is an awful ftp client. I have never been able to get it to work with an added ftp account and haven't seen anyone else be sucessful either. I haven't tried the command line for anything but my main account so I'd have to play with thaht to see how it might work. I would recommend getting one of the free FTP clients and using it. I use Filezilla and CoreFTP a lot and love both. Many folks here like SmartFTP. All three are free and don't dump spyware on your machine either. I test FTP problems with these clients and it is rare when they don't work (and when they don't there is usually a problem somewhre that we can then find.) Quote
monalisa Posted August 17, 2003 Author Posted August 17, 2003 hmm. That is very curious. I downloaded smart FTP (its quite feature rich!) and that seems to work fine. Thanks for your help! Quote
TCH-Dick Posted August 17, 2003 Posted August 17, 2003 If you really want to use IE just run WS_FTP Pro as your ftp program. It works great inside your browser or using the program itself. http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/WS_FTP/features.html Quote
ztrauq Posted August 28, 2003 Posted August 28, 2003 If you're on a Windows box, I would reccomend FileZilla - it's a free, open-source graphical FTP program with a lot of functionality. On Linux (or Mac OS X using Apple X11), you could try axyftp or ncftp, and there's also RBrowserLite for the regular OSX interface, and all of those are free. Quote
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