RE: FTP Issue

And I forgot to link to some help on this;

http://as400bks.rochester.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v4r4/ic2924/info/RZAIQSENDPASV.HTM#HDRRZAIQSENDPASV

HTH

--phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hall, Philip 
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 3:25 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: FTP Issue
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shrader, Patrick [mailto:pshrader@xxxxxxxx]
> > Subject: RE: FTP Issue
> > 
> > I was just granted administrative rights on that machine; 
> > still locks up.
> 
> If your FTP client 'locks up' while doing things like put, 
> get, ls - in fact almost all of the FTP sub-commands should 
> lock the session - the most probable cause is that either the 
> server or the client cannot create passive ports for 
> listening for data channel traffic.
> 
> As you've already said, FTP from a PC client works OK, so it 
> looks like the iSeries is not allowing the creation of these 
> ports. Or, as Chris was probably hinting at, there is 
> something in the middle (firewall, router, switch, etc.) that 
> isn't in-between the PC and the FTP server, that is blocking 
> the traffic on these ports.
> 
> --phil
>