[RESOLVED] ftp issues

[Jason Batten]

Hey all,

Something is wrong with my pc and not allowing me to connect to ftp accounts. I have 3 accounts I have tried to connect to but all fail using IE & other FTP software. I am running XP SP2, no other firewalls except standard. I tried turning that off but no go... any suggestions :confused:

IE, just says time out check permissions, smart ftp says basically the same.

Tried the smart ftp help file suggestions but meh :(

[kubis]

use passive FTP transfers, it may help especially if youre behind a NAT or firewall

both MSIE and smartFTP supports that (search for PASV connection)

[Jason Batten]

Cheers but that didn't seem to work :(

[kubis]

well try some of following stuff:

a) restart your machine (sure, its windows...)
b) try to use ftp.exe bundled with windows if you are able to connect to some server; if not, it must be a real problem somewhere in the tcpip layer. are you connecting directly to ftp, or through some router/nat ?

[vaaaska]

Three options await.

A)

- Open your config.bat.sys.hack.virus.exe
- Pound on the keyboard until something beeps
- Look closely at the monitor
- Worship your girlfriend
- Save and close your edits

B) Reinstall Windows.

C) Buy a Mac.

D) Oh yeah, one more. Place your computer into the EXACT center of a pentagram drawn with wax in the ground and place burning black candles at each apex of the star. Restart your computer 1,000 times consecutively.

[goldbug]

Is it more than one FTP site? Where are they hosted (do you control them)? It could be a misconfiguration issue and your user account doesn't have access to it's own home directories.

[vaaaska]

Actually, I did have this problem awhile back - couldn't get to my own site. As far as I know, I still can't. I edited up my /etc/hosts file and placed my domain and the ip into the mix and the problem was solved.

As best as I know, it's some strange local DNS issue...

I think you can do that on a pc, right?

[goldbug]

Windows does have a hosts file, IIRC. It's in %SYSTEMDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\ or something like that

[piersk]

isn't it sam.hosts or hosts.sam or something like that?

[Jason Batten]

There is a hosts and hosts.sam file. Either way have no idea what you guys were talking about but thanks for the effort.

What I ended up doing was...

- Pound on the keyboard until something beeps
- Look closely at the monitor
- Unistalling SP2
- Reinstalling my modem
- Getting really angry
- Throwing things (didn't break anything which made a change)

and ta da!

*laughs at self then kicks his own dumb arse