Wierd FTP Error

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.2K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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

Doh! I poked around at Microsoft's site, thinking it was surely a
defect of the Microsoft product, so it didn't occur to me to ask
Google. :-\


Kurt
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I wish that they would sell it.
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