firewall question

[Jessica Zhu]

Great. I checked and found out that the people complained about connection 
problem for ftp using passive mode on their BBedit. After switching back 
to active or sftp mode, all is fine now.

Thanks for all the inputs. They are really helpful.

Cheers!

Jessica


On Thu, 12 May 2005, Bill Tangren wrote:

> Jessica Zhu wrote:
> > 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 
> > 
> 
> I think your problem is that they are (or are not, I don't remember 
> which right now) using passive mode for ftp by default. They need to 
> switch whichever they are using. That should solve the problem.
> 
> Bill
> 
>