[H-GEN] FTP Troubles

[Stuart Longland]

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Conor Cunningham wrote:

> PORT 192,168,1,200,4,85
> 200 PORT Command successful.
> LIST
> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
> 426 Data connection closed, transfer aborted.

Looks like you're using standard (active?) FTP.  Your laptop, when 
connected via your firewall, is not accessible from outside (which is 
what you want).  Therefore you need to use passive FTP in order to 
download anything.

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