FTP passive mode on Win98 FTP client

Hi everybody,

I'm working on a third party application which uses the FTP client embedded
in the o/s to put files onto a remote server.
Actually I don't know if the client used is the one provided with Internet
Explorer or another app., based on the o/s libraries.

The FTP server I have to connect to must be reached in passive mode. So,
while the connection works fine under Win XP Pro and Win 2000 Pro, I haven't
been able to set it up under Win 98 se and Win XP Home (FTP in normal mode
works).

The questions are...

Do Win98se and WinXPHome embedded FTP clients support passive mode
connections?
If so, how to enable it?

Thanks very much in advance.

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L.



Luca

"Luca" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Yjyxd.1181665$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm working on a third party application which uses the FTP client
> embedded in the o/s to put files onto a remote server.
> Actually I don't know if the client used is the one provided with Internet
> Explorer or another app., based on the o/s libraries.
>
> The FTP server I have to connect to must be reached in passive mode. So,
> while the connection works fine under Win XP Pro and Win 2000 Pro, I
> haven't been able to set it up under Win 98 se and Win XP Home (FTP in
> normal mode works).
>
> The questions are...
>
> Do Win98se and WinXPHome embedded FTP clients support passive mode
> connections?
> If so, how to enable it?
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> --
> L.


Depends which embedded client you are talking about.

The client in IE supports passive mode since some past version of IE.
Certainly the version of IE (6 ) which ships with XP does.
I'm not sure about Win98 SE.
Go to Internet Options, and look.

If you mean the command line FTP client, then no it does not support passive
mode.
Download gFTP, a replacement which does:


ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/wind...-for-win32.zip

Do a ? at this one, and see there are many more commands.
PASV is the one you need.




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Best Regards,
Ron Lowe
MS-MVP Windows Networking