Wierd FTP Error

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:59:52 PDT 2004


On 02/27/04 21:52, Kurt Wall wrote:

> I have a bunch of computers behind my gateway box. One of them is,
> gasp, horror, an Windows 2000 system I have to use occasionally
> for books. Whenever I try to use FTP from the Windows system, I
> constantly get PORT errors:
> 
> TYPE A
> 502 Illegal PORT command
> 
> This happens only at a command line prompt, but I've also seen
> it, IIRC, from some GUI FTP apps that I've tried. 
> 
> Yet, I can use FTP to the same sites without trouble from my
> Solaris system and from the Linux systems. I suspect Windows
> is doing something untoward, but darned if I can figure out
> what it is or, more to the point, how to fix it. Any suggestions?

maybe?
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=502%20Illegal%20PORT%20command&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&lr=&num=50&hl=en

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