FTP connection problems

Nefarious · 2 Jun 2006 at 10:49

Someone is having difficulties with transferring files by FTP, I suggested using something other than Windows FTP software as it's usually read me

Problems persisted so I said to open FTP from a command prompt. It connected to the site and requested user name - entered (no problems)
requested password - entered (terminated by remote host)

I'm under the impression that this is caused by firewalling on his connection, is this so (I checked that windows firewall et al were off)? If not any ideas of what to do?

If it is the internet connection (he's in a hotel in Dubai) is there anything I can do other than ring the hotel (would some sort of web based port redirection service work?)?

Lots of question marks here so any help would be gratefully received

Thanks

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-Berserker

Nefarious · 2 Jun 2006 at 12:00

He can't connect using command line - it chucks him out before connecting (hence - terminated by remote host) which is why I'm having such a problem

Some firewalling protocols don't perform a simple block on ports and I've seen similar errors with firewalled systems.

If it is firewalling then any ideas how to circumvent, if not what do people think the fault is???

Nefarious · 3 Jun 2006 at 15:38

At the start of the post in the other forums I prefaced the post with - asked this in .... sorry was a bit desperate and no one seemed to be answering

Interestingly I'd already set the FTP to passive mode as I was aware of the port problem which was why I was so flummoxed as to why it accepted a connection but cut out on authentication (I've made sure they were entering the correct details and it said connection terminated by remote host not login details incorrect). Any more ideas?

p.s. I checked port 22 and it's blocked

Nefarious · 3 Jun 2006 at 18:27

I know port 22 is SSH but in a post someone made they suggested ignoring FTP and using SFTP/SSH which does use port 22

Anyone know of any good ideas of how I'd use port 80 to transfer files short of using web based email?

Nefarious · 4 Jun 2006 at 06:18

I tried setting up port forwarding so that SSH would run over port 80 but the hotel must have some form of protocol checking (I'm told that the this is becoming more common).

This is so frustrating why do people provide internet connections and then put up so many barriers that they become unusable!!!???? It would be quicker to send each packet by mail on a floppy disk at this rate, arrrrgh.