Subject: Re: bug#7034: 23.2; Open remote files (via FTP) fails on (my) Windows XP port

From: Jason Rumney <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:10:03 +0800

Dani Moncayo <[email-masked]> writes:

> cd "/pub/mozilla.org/"
> 250 Directory successfully changed.
> ls -al c:/DOCUME~1/admin/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp4012GxJ
> Connection closed by remote host.
> ls -al c:/DOCUME~1/admin/LOCALS~1/Temp/ange-ftp4012GxJ
> Not connected.

This is usually a sign that you are on a NATed connection and require
passive mode.  The Windows FTP client does not support passive
mode. Alternative FTP clients for Windows exist to get around this and
other restrictions of the standard Windows client.