POPORT

Since it's a slow day I'll empty out my box
of annoying little questions:

When I try to connect to my IIS 5 FTP site over my LAN I get

200 ...
500 'POPORT 192,168,1,1,19,138' Command not understood
500 ...

I sure the command should be 'PORT 192,...'

This happens on several XP boxes (SP1 and SP2) when
using IE6 and also intermittently when using WS FTP Pro.

What is the deal????

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kpg A+ MCP MCNGP 0x22
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ~William G. McAdoo

kpg

For those interested in my little problem:

WINSOCK.DLL: WinSock 2.0
WS_FTP Pro 6.01 99.01.29, Copyright © 1992-1999 Ipswitch, Inc.
- -
220 svr-003 Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
USER anonymous
331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity (e-mail name) as password.
PASS (hidden)
230-Welcome to My FTP
230 Anonymous user logged in.
PWD
257 "/" is current directory.
SYST
215 Windows_NT version 5.0
Host type (S): Microsoft NT
PORT 192,168,1,139,4,242
500 'POPORT 192,168,1,1,19,140': command not understood
! Failed "port":
! Retrieve of folder listing failed (0)

kpg

Mate, that can sometimes mean the command is too long, you're not trying to
change to a very deep directory structure are you?

Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz

"kpg" <> wrote in message
news:...
> For those interested in my little problem:
>
<snip>
> 500 'POPORT 192,168,1,1,19,140': command not understood
> ! Failed "port":
> ! Retrieve of folder listing failed (0)
>

Wayne McGlinn

"Wayne McGlinn" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Mate, that can sometimes mean the command is too long, you're not trying
> to
> change to a very deep directory structure are you?
>
> Wayne McGlinn
> Brisbane, Oz
>

No. Someone told me it may be a problem with the NAT router
not translating the command correctly. I'm leaning toward that
explanation. I did a firmware upgrade on that router about a year
ago and it killed all FTP access, so I rolled it back.

Lynksys BEFSR41
firmware version: 1.42.3, Jan 28 2002

kpg

kpg

Ok, have you tried passive ftp as opposed to active?
I've also had issues in the past with Checkpoint firewalls not understanding
the end-of-line character.
From RFC959 (page 45)

"The commands begin with a command code followed by an argument
field. The command codes are four or fewer alphabetic characters.
Upper and lower case alphabetic characters are to be treated
identically. Thus, any of the following may represent the
retrieve command:

RETR Retr retr ReTr rETr

This also applies to any symbols representing parameter values,
such as A or a for ASCII TYPE. The command codes and the argument
fields are separated by one or more spaces.

The argument field consists of a variable length character string
ending with the character sequence <CRLF> (Carriage Return, Line
Feed) for NVT-ASCII representation; for other negotiated languages
a different end of line character might be used. It should be
noted that the server is to take no action until the end of line
code is received."

Wayne


"kpg" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Wayne McGlinn" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Mate, that can sometimes mean the command is too long, you're not trying
> > to
> > change to a very deep directory structure are you?
> >
> > Wayne McGlinn
> > Brisbane, Oz
> >
>
> No. Someone told me it may be a problem with the NAT router
> not translating the command correctly. I'm leaning toward that
> explanation. I did a firmware upgrade on that router about a year
> ago and it killed all FTP access, so I rolled it back.
>
> Lynksys BEFSR41
> firmware version: 1.42.3, Jan 28 2002
>
> kpg
>

Wayne McGlinn

> Ok, have you tried passive ftp as opposed to active?

Yeah. Can't use Passive FTP because XP SP2 blocks it (?)

That is, When the "use passive FTP" check box is checked in
IE Tools/advanced then our API driven update software for our
product does not connect after we upgraded to SP2. Unchecking
the box (active FTP using the PORT command) solved the problem.

This morning I reset to modem reconfigured some server IP
address, installed some security updates and rebooted both
servers and now it works.

So all is well for now.

Thanks.

kp "i hate black boxing it" g

kpg