[Zope] [OT] EMACS, FTP & Firewalls

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:23:14 +0000


sam gendler wrote:
> 
> Is there a firewall between you and your zope instance.  

Come to think of it, there is now and there wasnt' before...

> If your firewall prevents
> inbound connections, then all control commands will work, but data tranfers (retr,
> list, etc) will fail, since the ftp server will attempt to connect to you through a
> firewall.  

Yup, knew that already, don't know why I didn't put one and one together ;-)

> Change your ftp client to use passive ftp and everything should work.

Anyone know how I do that with ange-ftp in EMACS?

cheers,

Chris