FTP Access

[Charley.irwin]

Hi All
I have been using Wingate for several years behind another proxy. We recently moved to a cabel modem. I am unable to reach our FTP through Wingate. The FTP server is on another computer running off the same cable modem router port (1 digit off on the last octet). I can access the FTP site from the Wingate computer if I set the IE connection properties to not use the Wingate proxy, but only get "202 Wingate Engine FTP Gateway Ready" when going through Wingate.

[olaf.krause]

FTP over HTTP. Try using the the same settings as for HTTP-Proxy.

[Charley.irwin]

Thanks for the response Olaf, but that was among my first attemps, still no luck. Any other ideas?

[olaf.krause]

Thanks for the response Olaf, but that was among my first attemps, still no luck. Any other ideas?

And what happened? Did you get any error message or a timeout?

By the way which browser do you use? IE? Could you please try also FireFox with the setting same settings for HTTP & FTP? What happens there?

[Charley.irwin]

The only response I've gotten from going through the wingate is "202 ... usually after a long pause.

[owitte]

The only response I've gotten from going through the wingate is "202 ... usually after a long pause.

Hello Charly,
I guess what you see is the response from the FTP Proxy in Wingate (bound to internal NIC, used for connections to external FTP sites). Try this: Wingate TCP mapping on port 21, bound to *external* adapter, mapped to *internal* IP (of your ftp server) on the same port. Then connect to the WinGate machine from outside as if it's the FTP server (use passive mode, user@site, no proxies).

Hope this helps
Oliver

[Charley.irwin]

Hi Oliver

I think your right that I'm getting a response from the Wingate FTP Server. I don't want that, I just want to access other FTP servers outside of my internal network. However I don't understand your suggestion. Seams this would create aconnection that would only allow a connection with out external FTP site only if that. Help me understand. Thanks

[Charley.irwin]

I use IE only on the Wingate computer. We have set a policy to not install anythink on the Wingate Proxy computer. On my computer (with remote monitoring) I use Firefox and don't get any response at all. IE gives the following error!
"Windows can not access this folder. Make sure you typed the filename correctly and that you have permission to access the folder.

Details:
The operation timed out."

There are no limiting permissions on the directoy address I typed. The same address works from the Wingate Proxy computer configured to bypass Wingate.

[owitte]

Hi Oliver

I think your right that I'm getting a response from the Wingate FTP Server. I don't want that, I just want to access other FTP servers outside of my internal network. However I don't understand your suggestion. Seams this would create aconnection that would only allow a connection with out external FTP site only if that. Help me understand. Thanks

Hi Charley,
maybe I misunderstood your problem... I thought you want to connect to a FTP server in your LAN from the *outside* through wingate.

For connections from LAN to outside FTP server with IE, I suggest using the HTTP proxy in wingate. Just set IE to use the HTTP proxy for all outgoing connections, that should work.

Best regards
Oliver

[olaf.krause]

The only response I've gotten from going through the wingate is "202 ... usually after a long pause.

How could that be if you set up the FTP connection to the HTTP proxy? Maybe you should post your wingate (reg) & IE or Firefox settings (Screenshot).