FTP Problems?

[Melrose]

So after several days of perfectly functioning FTP transfers, and without changing a single setting, both CuteFTP and Dreamweaver's FTP stopped working - DW telling my password was incorrect (though no priveledges have changed) and CuteFTP giving me this:

331 Password required for [username].
PASS ********
230 User [username] logged in.
SYST

215 UNIX Type: L8
Remote system is UNIX - text files transfer optimization is ON
MACB ENABLE

500 MACB not understood
PWD

257 "/" is current directory.
CWD /httpdocs

250 CWD command successful
PWD

257 "/httpdocs" is current directory.
FEAT

211 Features:
MDTM
REST STREAM
SIZE
End
PORT 192,168,1,100,192,8

200 PORT command successful
LIST

saying it's "Building the Folder List" and eventually times out.

I've tried changing both app and system settings for Passive FTP (and I have no firewall - at least didn't install one with my network and didn't have on prior to that) but still no luck.

Any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[yeroen]

You need to disable extended passive mode.

Issue the following command before you list the contents the remote directory:

epsv off

 

[Melrose]

How would I go about doing this? Cute FTP won't let me type in the FTP command box and DW doesn't even have a spot for it..

thx!

 

[yeroen]

How would I go about doing this? Cute FTP won't let me type in the FTP command box and DW doesn't even have a spot for it..

thx!

Do it from the terminal instead, i.e. at the command line prompt:

ftp -i hostname
or
ftp -i ip address

This is one of the reasons why I don't like GUI wrappers for ftp. ftp is simple enough not to need a GUI.

BTW, I had the same problem when I first got my Mac. It took me forever to figure out the solution, google was of no help (passive mode is different from extended passive mode)