FreeBSD 6.3, ftpd and crappy clients

[Doug Hardie]

On Feb 26, 2008, at 23:43, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Doug Hardie
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:12 PM
>> To: Wojciech Puchar
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3, ftpd and crappy clients
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 26, 2008, at 22:58, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
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>>> is ftpd changed compared to 6.2?
>>> all normal clients (like classic ftp, lftp) works fine, unix mozilla
>>> ftp client, and few winftp clients shows empty catalog.
>>>
>>> i know that's crappy clients, but worked with 6.2 (i think ;)
>>>
>>> any solution? (except the best - changing to working clients)
>>
>> You might try using the PASSIV switch.
>
> That could be it, but I really doubt it, here's the output
> from 2 different systems I have, one running 6.2 the other 6.3:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\tedm>ftp XXX.XXX.XXX
> Connected to XXX.XXX.XXX.
> 220 XXX.XXX.XXX FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
> User (XXX.XXX.XXX:(none)): tedm
> 331 Password required for tedm.
> Password:
> 230 User tedm logged in.
> ftp> dir
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
> total 16
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  767 Feb 22 20:11 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  248 Feb 22 20:11 .login
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  158 Feb 22 20:11 .login_conf
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff  373 Feb 22 20:11 .mail_aliases
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  331 Feb 22 20:11 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  797 Feb 22 20:11 .profile
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff  276 Feb 22 20:11 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff  975 Feb 22 20:11 .shrc
> 226 Transfer complete.
> ftp: 441 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 441000.00Kbytes/sec.
> ftp>
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\tedm>ftp YYY.YYY.YYY
> Connected to YYY.YYY.YYY.
> 220 YYY.YYY.YYY FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
> User (YYY.YYY.YYY:(none)): tedm
> 331 Password required for tedm.
> Password:
> 230 User tedm logged in.
> ftp> dir
> 200 PORT command successful.
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
> total 760344
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        767 Jan 24  2007 .cshrc
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff         35 Feb 26 14:18 .lesshst
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        248 Jan 24  2007 .login
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        158 Jan 24  2007 .login_conf
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff        373 Jan 24  2007 .mail_aliases
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        331 Jan 24  2007 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        805 Apr 11  2007 .profile
> -rw-------  1 tedm  staff        276 Jan 24  2007 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r--  1 tedm  staff        975 Jan 24  2007 .shrc
> drwx------  2 tedm  staff        512 Feb  1 23:52 .ssh
> 226 Transfer complete.
> ftp: 2350 bytes received in 0.30Seconds 7.81Kbytes/sec.
> ftp>
>
> See the difference?  There ISN'T any.  It's the same
> program.
>
> Likely he just made a mistake and selected lukeftpd in
> the inetd.conf file rather than the normal ftpd.
>
> He would also need to select the passive switch in the
> client, not the server, with whatever radio button
> it uses.
>
> Ted


I guess my response wasn't as clear as I thought it was.  Ftp clients  
have a default for passive mode.  Some default to using it and others  
to having it off.  I have encountered ftp clients in the PC world that  
have problems with the default mode.  Often its because of a firewall  
issue somewhere along the line.  Changing that setting in the client  
by using the PASSIV command often works for me.