Re: [gentoo-user] NCFTP in passive mode...

[Billy Holmes <billy@gonoph.net>]

Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> Can anyone see where I'm going wrong.
> 
> I'm behind a NAT box which precludes my use of active-FTP but not 
> passive.  I have verified this both with Windows based FTP clients and 
> with the latest unmasked "vanilla" ftp from portage.  When I try to use 
> ncftp, however, I run into difficulties:

I think you need to set passive on before you do any data transfers. I 
know that with my copy, ncftp will hang while waiting on a active 
transfer to finish. I normally have to terminate the program (CTRL-Z ; 
jobs -l ; kill $PID). However, I've been able to set the passive option 
before I've transfered any files.

You can also try "wget" if you know the file path, and just want to 
retreive a file.
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