DavidF
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FTP failures and sucessesMy mBook is working well on my wireless network - except I am having trouble getting FTP going. I have installed CesarFTP on my desktop and set it up to share some folders.
From the mBook I can use Opera to see the FTP site in a browser window (ftp:\\192.168.1.5). NetUtils confirms that it can ping the desktop machine and that port 21 is open. OK so Opera and NetUtils confirm that the FTP server can be reached from the mBook.
Now, I have installed nFTP (a netbook version) but it will not connect to the server - it attempts the connection but then says connection closed. The nFTP log shows: Initialising ... Looking up host name ... Error looking up host name ... connection closed.
RMR FTP can log on to the FTP server but will not display the directories as it says it cannot recognise the file system???
At the moment, I have got arround the issue by installing an FTP server on the mBook and driving it from the PC end. But I wan't to drive it from the mBook!
Can anyone suggest what might be going on here or should I give up and settle for what does work?
David (in a very hot - 31.7 degrees C - New Zealand)
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Kees vd Straten
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Hello David,
With NetStat you can see the IP address of your MBook.
You must put that IP address also in you FTP program on your desktop.
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DavidF
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Just to close the loop on this one ... after lots of installing un installing and generally trying everything, the problem with nFTP seems to be that it doesn't like working with files on my CF card (where almost everything is kept). It will work quite happily on "C" but as soon as I switch to "D" it will do a few transfers (up or down) and then will terminate with an error code 3. RMRftp doesn't seem to have this problem.
Hope that might help others.
David
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