Of course, some people behind certain firewalls can only do passive mode transfers - and you can't blame them for that. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 8:33 PM Subject: RE: [TCLUG] proftpd patch for passive mode > Passive mode is hosed in rc2. The people who need to use this are > journalists, typing anything which comes even remotely close to an ftp > command is incomprehensible to them. They have a pretty GUI interface one > that runs under windows and getting some of them to click on "Advanced > properties" to disable passive mode transfers was harder than explaining > quantum physics to a retarded monkey. > > I need to get it patched or I'll be up all night with phonecalls explaining > to them how to disable passive mode on their client. >:( >