Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:18:59 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3, ftpd and crappy clients Message-ID: <3BFD44F9-6487-4762-84A1-A58C03E68B71@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOEGNCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOEGNCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Feb 26, 2008, at 23:43, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Doug Hardie >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:12 PM >> To: Wojciech Puchar >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3, ftpd and crappy clients >> >> >> >> On Feb 26, 2008, at 22:58, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >>> is ftpd changed compared to 6.2? >>> all normal clients (like classic ftp, lftp) works fine, unix mozilla >>> ftp client, and few winftp clients shows empty catalog. >>> >>> i know that's crappy clients, but worked with 6.2 (i think ;) >>> >>> any solution? (except the best - changing to working clients) >> >> You might try using the PASSIV switch. > > That could be it, but I really doubt it, here's the output > from 2 different systems I have, one running 6.2 the other 6.3: > > C:\Documents and Settings\tedm>ftp XXX.XXX.XXX > Connected to XXX.XXX.XXX. > 220 XXX.XXX.XXX FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready. > User (XXX.XXX.XXX:(none)): tedm > 331 Password required for tedm. > Password: > 230 User tedm logged in. > ftp> dir > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. > total 16 > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 767 Feb 22 20:11 .cshrc > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 248 Feb 22 20:11 .login > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 158 Feb 22 20:11 .login_conf > -rw------- 1 tedm staff 373 Feb 22 20:11 .mail_aliases > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 331 Feb 22 20:11 .mailrc > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 797 Feb 22 20:11 .profile > -rw------- 1 tedm staff 276 Feb 22 20:11 .rhosts > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 975 Feb 22 20:11 .shrc > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp: 441 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 441000.00Kbytes/sec. > ftp> > > C:\Documents and Settings\tedm>ftp YYY.YYY.YYY > Connected to YYY.YYY.YYY. > 220 YYY.YYY.YYY FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready. > User (YYY.YYY.YYY:(none)): tedm > 331 Password required for tedm. > Password: > 230 User tedm logged in. > ftp> dir > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'. > total 760344 > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 767 Jan 24 2007 .cshrc > -rw------- 1 tedm staff 35 Feb 26 14:18 .lesshst > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 248 Jan 24 2007 .login > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 158 Jan 24 2007 .login_conf > -rw------- 1 tedm staff 373 Jan 24 2007 .mail_aliases > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 331 Jan 24 2007 .mailrc > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 805 Apr 11 2007 .profile > -rw------- 1 tedm staff 276 Jan 24 2007 .rhosts > -rw-r--r-- 1 tedm staff 975 Jan 24 2007 .shrc > drwx------ 2 tedm staff 512 Feb 1 23:52 .ssh > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp: 2350 bytes received in 0.30Seconds 7.81Kbytes/sec. > ftp> > > See the difference? There ISN'T any. It's the same > program. > > Likely he just made a mistake and selected lukeftpd in > the inetd.conf file rather than the normal ftpd. > > He would also need to select the passive switch in the > client, not the server, with whatever radio button > it uses. > > Ted I guess my response wasn't as clear as I thought it was. Ftp clients have a default for passive mode. Some default to using it and others to having it off. I have encountered ftp clients in the PC world that have problems with the default mode. Often its because of a firewall issue somewhere along the line. Changing that setting in the client by using the PASSIV command often works for me.
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