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

From: Dani Moncayo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:09:01 +0200

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Jason Rumney <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 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.
>

You must be right, because I have Windows XP installed on top of
Ubuntu, using Virtualbox, and the guest OS has an NATed network
connection.

Thank you.