From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 3:31:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [194.17.208.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD14C37B416 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 03:31:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.simx.org (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by rambo.simx.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBSBVfC11870; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:31:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3C2C5819.2080501@rambo.simx.org> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:31:37 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp & FreeBSD firewall References: <000001c18f1f$8fa66750$0701a8c0@darryl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darryl Hoar wrote: >Greetings, >I built a Freebsd firewall according to the instructions at >http://www.schlacter.net:8500/public/FreeBSD-STABLE_and_IPFILTER.html > >The firewall/router is working fine. > >My network consists mostly of Windows PC's. Since I've put the firewall >in place, they have been unable to use ftp to retrieve files from the web. >I have tried cuteftp, ws_ftp and microsofts ftp clients on these windows >machines. I have set them up to use passive , but the firewall settings >in these clients don't make sense. > >What do I need to do to safely let my Windows users use ftp to retrieve/put >files on the internet ? > Trying settting the clients in passive mode. Where you find the settings depends on the client software, but its usually reffered to as passive transfers, passive mode or PASV for short. I know for a fact that both CuteFTP and WS_FTP supports this option. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message