Thanks for the help,
And to quote Juha Suhonen:
The short answer: You don't (not with the command-line ftp utility that
comes with Tru64, anyway). A good "fix" would be to get & install NcFTP,
available from www.ncftp.com - it's really much better than the standard
command-line ftp. You can even use ncftpget & ncftpput to get/put files
non-interactively.
Any Compaq people out there could take this as a request.
PASV mode support in a ftp client is pretty basic stuff these days.
Tru64 has it in the server, but not in the client. Seems like a lack of symmetry.
============Original Question
Managers,
My Alpha is behind a firewall which only allows Passive Mode ftp requests.
I can get through easy enough with PC software, so I know the server I am going to supports it.
How do I invoke passive mode transfers under Tru64 from the command line.
I have tried
# ftp ftpserver
login: anonymous
password: my e-mail
ftp> quote PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (206,137,36,133,16,69).
which looks very promising, but then
ftp> ls
500 Illegal PORT command.
leaves me unsure what to do.
I suspect I have put the remote ftp server into PASSIVE mode, but the ftp client under Tru64 is not set right.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
It is a pain to have double transfer everything.
Greg
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Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
The Norcross Group
www.NorcrossGroup.com
Received on Tue Aug 28 2001 - 21:11:17 NZST