Odp: firewall question

[Jessica Zhu]

Bartek,

Thanks. Good point. I will ask people who complained about the settings 
for their BBedit and whether it's possible to configure to use passive 
ftp for their Bbedit.

Jessica

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Bartosz Brewinski wrote:

> Maybe "BBedit" is not configured (or can't be) for passive ftp while the other ftp clients used in the office are using passive ftp connections ?
> 
> Maybe it would be sufficient to persuade BBedit to use passive connection method ?
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> bartek
> 
> >>> jessica at mathforum.org 2005-05-12 20:21 >>>
> Hi,
> 
> I set up the firewall on an old linux(7.1) server using ipchains which 
> allows ftp within our network. After the firewall up, some users in the 
> office who using Bbedit on Macintosh complained that they cannot ftp to 
> the server any more although there is no problem to use other ftp 
> programs.  
> 
> My final solution is to trust the ips from those users using BBedit and 
> accept all from them. However, I thought this is not the best and secure 
> solution. Just wondering whether anybody on the list can help me figure 
> out the better solution.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jessica 
> 
>