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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 289269" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>In my experience, these sorts of problems always relate to Passive mode one way or the other. I generally revert to good 'ol Terminal to debug them. Start a Terminal session and type "ftp your_host_name".</p><p></p><p>Enter your username and password when prompted.</p><p></p><p>Now enter the command "ls". This lists the contents of the directory you have just signed into. If you don't get anything back, you have passive set wrong, usually. In this case, kill the program (usually CTL-C will do this) and launch ftp again.</p><p></p><p>This time, after you log in, type "PASV". If this comes back as unrecogized, try "EPSV". If this comes back as unrecognized, try "PASSIVE". Different ftp servers use different forms for the command, hence the multiple options above. This command toggles the state of the passive setting. Now try the "ls" command again. This time, hopefully, you get the listing you have requested.</p><p></p><p>If the above works, you have confirmed that you have a passive setting problem. You will now have to play with your ftp client of choice to make it do the same thing you just bludgeoned the command line ftp program into doing.</p><p></p><p>By the way, if you are interested, the command line FTP client is a very good client. You can download by using the "get" command, and you can upload using the "put" command. I hate to admit it, but after two years of using Linux prior to coming to Macs, command line ftp remains my favorite ftp client.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 289269, member: 17052"] In my experience, these sorts of problems always relate to Passive mode one way or the other. I generally revert to good 'ol Terminal to debug them. Start a Terminal session and type "ftp your_host_name". Enter your username and password when prompted. Now enter the command "ls". This lists the contents of the directory you have just signed into. If you don't get anything back, you have passive set wrong, usually. In this case, kill the program (usually CTL-C will do this) and launch ftp again. This time, after you log in, type "PASV". If this comes back as unrecogized, try "EPSV". If this comes back as unrecognized, try "PASSIVE". Different ftp servers use different forms for the command, hence the multiple options above. This command toggles the state of the passive setting. Now try the "ls" command again. This time, hopefully, you get the listing you have requested. If the above works, you have confirmed that you have a passive setting problem. You will now have to play with your ftp client of choice to make it do the same thing you just bludgeoned the command line ftp program into doing. By the way, if you are interested, the command line FTP client is a very good client. You can download by using the "get" command, and you can upload using the "put" command. I hate to admit it, but after two years of using Linux prior to coming to Macs, command line ftp remains my favorite ftp client. [/QUOTE]
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