ange-ftp in emacs behind a router/firewall stops at ls...

ange-ftp in emacs behind a router/firewall stops at ls...

[Snake Djip]

Hi,

I've searched the group for information on using ange-ftp in emacs.

My setup is this :

DSL connection going to a Linksys Wireless Access Point (BEFW11S4),
and my PC is connected to the router.

I can connect to any FTP server on the internet using a regular FTP
client such as WS_FTP.

When I try with Emacs, it hangs after I enter the password.  During
the "hang", I see the router lights flash continuously, which means
that ange-ftp is constantly trying to accomplish something.  If I
Ctrl-G the process, and I look at the log, it seems to hang at the
"ls" command.

I can reproduce the same behaviour when using the regular FTP client
without Passive transfers...  the lights on the router are flashing,
and the connection is never complete (I never get a directory
listing).

Here's my .emacs (at least the part concerning ange-ftp) :

(require 'ange-ftp)
(setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "d:/windows/system32/ftp.exe")
(setq ange-ftp-tmp-name-template
      (concat (expand-file-name (getenv "TEMP")) "/ange-ftp/"))
(setq ange-ftp-gateway-tmp-name-template
      (concat (expand-file-name (getenv "TEMP")) "/ange-ftp/"))
(setq ange-ftp-smart-gateway "192.168.1.1")

Can anyone help me ?

Thanks.

Re: ange-ftp in emacs behind a router/firewall stops at ls...

[Kai Großjohann]

snakedjip@yahoo.com (Snake Djip) writes:

> I can reproduce the same behaviour when using the regular FTP client
> without Passive transfers...  the lights on the router are flashing,
> and the connection is never complete (I never get a directory
> listing).

Does your ftp client grok a command line argument to make it use
passive mode?  Then you can tell ange-ftp to use that.

kai
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Re: ange-ftp in emacs behind a router/firewall stops at ls...

[Snake Djip]

How do I find that out, this is ws_ftp on windows XP ...

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann wrote in message news:<vaf8z1zwuxk.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>...
> snakedjip@yahoo.com (Snake Djip) writes:
> 
> > I can reproduce the same behaviour when using the regular FTP client
> > without Passive transfers...  the lights on the router are flashing,
> > and the connection is never complete (I never get a directory
> > listing).
> 
> Does your ftp client grok a command line argument to make it use
> passive mode?  Then you can tell ange-ftp to use that.
> 
> kai

Re: ange-ftp in emacs behind a router/firewall stops at ls...

[Snake Djip]

Well, it turns out it wasn't a problem with Emacs, it was my Linksys
BEFW11S4 router's firmware version (1.42.7) which prevented the FTP
from working.  I flashed it with 1.40.3, and it now works...  Hope
this will be helpful for someone in the future...

snakedjip@yahoo.com (Snake Djip) wrote in message news:<3318afc0.0209180727.7d789754@posting.google.com>...
> How do I find that out, this is ws_ftp on windows XP ...
> 
> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann wrote in message news:<vaf8z1zwuxk.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>...
> > snakedjip@yahoo.com (Snake Djip) writes:
> > 
> > > I can reproduce the same behaviour when using the regular FTP client
> > > without Passive transfers...  the lights on the router are flashing,
> > > and the connection is never complete (I never get a directory
> > > listing).
> > 
> > Does your ftp client grok a command line argument to make it use
> > passive mode?  Then you can tell ange-ftp to use that.
> > 
> > kai

Re: ange-ftp in emacs behind a router/firewall stops at ls...

[Kai Großjohann]

snakedjip@yahoo.com (Snake Djip) writes:

> How do I find that out, this is ws_ftp on windows XP ...

Emacs uses ftp.exe, not another program.  I don't know how to read
documentation on programs in Windows.

kai
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